Gmirror on a partition of a slice

[cyberdinn]

Could someone confirm its impossible to boot off a mirrored partition ?

else explain how to do it ? 

Thanks a lot.



n j wrote:
> 
>> You can mirror any GEOM providers, which includes disks, slices,
>> partitions, encrypted providers, RAID0/RAID3 devices, ZFS volumes, GEOM
>> gate devices, and more. Anything you can probe with diskinfo(8) can be
>> mirrored (and used for other GEOM classes too). It's more than that. You
>> can even mix providers from different GEOM classes, eg:
> 
> As Pawel confirmed, partitions can be used as gmirror consumers.
> Perhaps the problem I'm running into is that I'm trying to boot off a
> gmirror'ed partition? I.e. maybe you can boot if you mirror a whole
> disk or a slice, but if you partition a disk and use only one
> partition for a mirror, then you can't boot. Could that be the
> problem?
> 
> Thanks,
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> Nino
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