clear metadata using dd?

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:14:14PM -0600, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:57:23AM -0800, R. B. Riddick wrote:
> However, I'm not a big fan of the priority placed on the I/O to sync the
> disks.  Pretty much during a resync, the box is unusable for file/disk I/O
> for a number of hours.  Apps using GNOME/GTK are almost non-responsive, and
> forget about even using java/eclipse.  I haven't found a good way to tune
> gmirror's sync. [...]

Have you tried setting kern.geom.mirror.sync_requests to 1?

> [...] I also wish you could pause the sync, restart, and unpause
> it where it left off. [...]

It should just work. When you reboot during the sync process it should
continue after the reboot from the place it stopped.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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