gmirror (was Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade...)

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 18:52, John Nielsen wrote:

[risk that last sector of geom(4) provider is already in use]

> It's generally significantly less likely to even be available for use due
> to device sizes not dividing evenly into the block sizes used by the
> filesystem, etc.
>
> Depending on what type of device you actually pass to gmirror as a consumer
> (raw disk, slice, or partition), it should be possible to manually ensure
> that there are a couple unused sectors at the end. It just depends on how
> paranoid (or possibly other more reasonable terms) you are.

I've always maintained that the correct question to ask a sysadmin is not

Are you paranoid?

but rather

Are you paranoid *enough*?

<grin />
Jonathan