gmirror disks vs partitions

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 1/17/07, Matthew X. Economou <xenophon at irtnog.org> wrote:
> > Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied
> > during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to
> > using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring?
>
> Joe,
>
> Partition-level software RAID plus LVM is how the following Slashdot
> poster manages extendable (and inequally sized disk) arrays on Linux:
>
> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169386&cid=14117414

[...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...]

Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always
expected to be present in software raid solutions. I
hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom.