gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major
upgrade...)
Jonathan McKeown
jonathan at hst.org.za
Thu Nov 16 07:30:32 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote:
[risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use]
> It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due
> to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the
> filesystem, etc.
>
> Depending on what type of device you actually pass to gmirror as a consumer
> (raw disk, slice, or partition), it should be possible to manually ensure
> that there are a couple unused sectors at the end. It just depends on how
> paranoid (or possibly other more reasonable terms) you are.
I've always maintained that the correct question to ask a sysadmin is not
Are you paranoid?
but rather
Are you paranoid *enough*?
<grin />
Jonathan
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