gmirror disks vs partitions

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:39:36 +0000
Josef Karthauser <joe at freebsd.org> wrote:

> A poll for opinions if I may?
> 
> I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which
> pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /dev/ad0s1
> with /dev/ad1s1).  Of course there are other ways of doing it to,
> like mirroring at the partition level, ie pairing /dev/ad0s1a with
> /dev/ad1s1a, /dev/ad0s1e with /dev/ad0s1e, etc.
> 
> Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied
> during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to
> using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring?

Would you replace the disk anyway?

-- 
Tom Rhodes