mirror a GPT partition, what label?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Koen Smits wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My new NAS will have the following disk layout:
> ad0 -> 2gb CF
> ad4 -> 1TB WD Green
> ad6 -> 1TB WD Green
>
> The CF will boot the rig, the 2 1TB disks will be mirrored with ZFS.  
> No
> problem there, did it before.
> The problem lies in the swap space, which I want to place at the first
> gigabyte of the 1TB disks. The disks will use GPT layout. I want to  
> gmirror
> the first 1GB partition on both disks. How should I accomplish this?  
> Is it
> sufficient to label both partitions 'freebsd'? According to man 8  
> gpart
> 'freebsd' should not be used when using GPT. Any insight would be
> appreciated.

Use "freebsd-swap" as the partition type.

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