Hand on gmirror (Was: Re: gmirror bugs, how many?)

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:10:02AM +0200, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> +> Hello, Pawel Jakub Dawidek!
> +> > 
> +> > This is known race, which is already fixed in HEAD. I want to commit it
> +> > soon.
> +> 
> +> Any plans on backporting it to RELENG_5 (RELENG_5_3 maybe?)?
> 
> I'm going to MFC it probably this weekend to RELENG_5, RELENG_5_3 is
> closed for changes like this one.

Thanks!

> +> To be on original topic - is there any way to make a mirror from live
> +> system? I mean I have running FreeBSD on da0 and I want to make a
> +> gmirror on it (I'm planning to add second drive soon). How to avoid
> +> those disklabel warnings correctly?
> 
> You still need to reboot. The whole instruction you should find in

Oh yes, a reboot is surely needed.  What I wanted to avoid is a full 
disk copy/xfer for the first consumer being created, as we have to do 
with vinum.

> freebsd-geom@ mailing list archives, I wrote about this few times, AFAIR.

Maybe a good time for a FAQ or handbook entry...