ccd and gstripe on 5.3-RC

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 03:00:39PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote:
+> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:58:25 +0200, Miguel Mendez
+> <flynn at energyhq.es.eu.org> wrote:
+> 
+> > I installed 5.3-RC1 yesterday. My main box has 2 9GB disks, which I
+> > usually partition this way:
+> > 
+> > da0:[512MB for /       ][ 8.5GB ]
+> > da1:[512MB for swap][ 8.5GB ]
+> [[...]]
+> > My question is, is gstripe supposed to work *only* with whole
+> > disks? If that's the case, wouldn't it be interesting to make it be
+> > able
+> > to work with partitions as well?

It should work with any GEOM providers.
Without more info it will be hard to track it down...

+> Actually, I labelled the two stripes using glabel(1) and am in fact
+> striping the two labelled providers (so I can freely move the disks
+> around without breaking the stripe).

Actually you don't need to use glabel(8) for gstripe(8) if you didn't
use '-h' option while your stripe was created.

+> I do recall some people reporting synchronisation problems using
+> geom_mirror with SCSI providers (with Pawel providing various patches to
+> fix things).  It's possible the same problems affect geom_stripe
+> devices.

No, this is not related to gstripe, we don't have synchronization here.

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