Method to mirror a single partition across the net

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Thu Nov 6 15:32:17 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:21:25PM -0500, kurt seel wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:50:18AM -0500, kurt seel wrote:
> >  
> >>Tell me if this helps :
> >>http://bsdtips.utcorp.net/mediawiki/index.php/Mirroring_over_network
> >>If anything is wrong or unclear let me know.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Thanks for the pointer.  Unfortunately, it doesn't describe 
> >what I'm trying to do.  I literally want to mirror only a
> >single partition across the network to a single partition.
> >I don't want to mirror a disk slice or an entire disk.
> >
> Just use the partition device node instead, GEOM doesn't care.

Yeah, I hust found this out!

node18:root[236] gmirror status
       Name    Status  Components
mirror/data  DEGRADED  ad4s1e
                       ggate0 (93%)

Thanks, again for the info.

-- 
Steve


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