New g_part class
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
pjd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 9 10:05:13 UTC 2007
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:54:00AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20070208082116.5ac22bee at loki.starkstrom.lan>, Joerg Pernfuss writes
> :
>
> >So in theory, the following should work?
> >
> >- set up a server with 2 160g sata drives (standard example that i
> > hope everyone can relate to)
> >- gmirror them
> >- set up one slice covering the whole gmirror
> >- create a disklabel for example with:
> > a 2g /
> > b 4g swap
> > c voodoo
> > d 4g /tmp
> > e 16g /var
> > f 20g /usr
> > g 54g /jails
> > This leaves the h partition and around 56g free for "later usage"
> > in case something comes up/happens or g needs to be grown.
> >- add the 'h' partition later on while the system is running
>
> It works if you leave gmirror out of the picture, so what gmirror
> does wrong I don't know.
I don't see how gmirror can break anything when it is placed below BSD
partitions. Maybe except that I saw some time ago that bsdlabel(8)
assume there is no '/' in provider's name.
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