Detecting GMIRROR volumes without using gmirror utility

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Fri Jul 7 19:20:21 UTC 2006


On 07/07/06 13:55, Scott Ullrich wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am working on adding GEOM mirror support to BSD Installer but do not
> with to depend on the gmirror binary to survey known disks.
> 
> Is it possible to find out the active gmirror volumes somehow via the
> kernel?  Maybe a sysctl knob similar to kern.disks?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

Maybe you can use the geom tasting functions? I see some hints here:

/usr/src/sys/geom/geom.h


Eric




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