gvinum behaviour on disk failure

[Alastair Watts]

R. B. Riddick wrote:

> Yes. Every geom class should work with every geom device... Since disks and
> slices and partitions are implemented as geom class today, gmirror should work
> with slices and partitions...

Sounds like a nice backup plan if gmirror can't work out the drive sizes 
natively, as per the paragraph below.

> Nope... As far as I now the user-land part of geom_mirror (gmirror) builds the
> minimum during the "create" and "label" procedure...

Assuming you specify both drives during the procedure. If you're trying 
to preserve data on one of the drives to be mirrored then there'd be a 
problem wouldn't there?

>>I'd still like to hear from someone who knows the insides of gvinum as 
>>to their opinion on the earlier reported incident.
> 
> Dont know if there are any...

So is gvinum now to be considered End Of Maintenance/Life?

Cheers,

Al