gmirror failed with error 19.

Luchesar V. ILIEV luchesar.iliev at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 14:54:01 UTC 2011


On 16/10/2011 14:51, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Nicolas.
> You wrote 16 октября 2011 г., 15:05:26:
> 
>> Of course you have to create the gpt inside the gmirror, not on the
>> same device the gmirror is based on. The warnings occur, when the gpt
>> is seen on the real disk. But later the gpt on the gmirror is used,
>> and on the device created by gmirror, gpt uses the last sector of that
>> device.
> 
>> I hope this will not change.
>   Problem is, that new BIOSes could refuse to boot from disk with such
>  misplaced (from raw disk's and BIOS' point of view) secondary GPT.
> 
> 

Probably I'm missing something, but why not do the opposite: configure
any gmirrors on top of the GPT partitions? That's at least what I do for
my swap volumes, although, admittedly, I'm also heavily using ZFS, which
means I don't have many partitions (2 to 3 at most).

Cheers,
Luchesar

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