OK, it appears to be running, but what's this?! (gmirror)
Danny Howard
dannyman at toldme.com
Tue Jan 25 14:26:32 PST 2005
Karl Denninger wrote:
>Gen2# bsdlabel /dev/mirror/m0s1
>[...]
>
>Uh, no, I didn't do that. The original label was put there during
>system installation, and I absolutely did not offset "c"
>
>Is this still ok, or am I asking for a (bogus) hard error some day when the
>system attempts access beyond the end of the physical disk?
>
Karl,
From my research, it had looked like the gmirror setup stuff will
rearrange your disk a bit to make room for the metadata, and otherwise
leave space at the beginning of the disk for various, presumably good
reasons. Some spelunking around the archives may score you a more
verbose answer.
-danny
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