gconcat and gpt

[Eric Anderson]

On 01/03/07 00:00, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 6.2-RC1 on an i386 box. I'm testing gjournal patch.
> I found that something is annoying... I use
> 
> gconcat label big da1 da2 da3
> 
> and then running gpt on the concat/big device. So, I got
> concat/bigp1, concat/bigp2, ... etc *AND* I also have
> da1p1, da1p2... Well, this is not a problem for normal use. However,
> when I enable gjournal, at boot time, gconcat first activates the
> big one then, gjournal finds there is journal data on da1p1, so
> it uses! Then, da1 is deactivated from gconcat...
> 
> My question is, why I got da1p1 when da1 is used by gconcat?

Did you use gjournal against the da* devices, or the gconcat device?  If 
you ever used it on the da* devices, the meta data might still be there 
confusing things.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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