Gmirror vs 10 Release-P12

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Michael W. Lucas <
mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:16:58PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > New machine. Installed FreeBSD release, installed gmirror, ran update..
> > gmirror stopped working.
> >
> > After a number of hours of trying different options and several
> re-installs,
> > tried a different approach:
> > * Install 10 Release
> > * Update to Release-P12
> > * Try to setup gmirror
> >
> > Even though the command "gmirror label -v gm0 /dev/ada0" comes back with
> > Metadata value stored on /dev/ada0
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe 9+ GPT partitioning doesn't work with gmirror on a whole
> disk.


It works on whole disks, it does spit out GPT warnings though.

For a non-narcissistic link explanation:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html


-- 
Adam