Re: mirroring two data disks (no system files on them)

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:18:40PM -0400, Christian Caron wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> my setup is:
+> 
+> - one disk ad0 (15GB) with FreeBSD 5.3 installed
+> - two identical disks ad2 and ad3 (15GB) with no data on it
+> 
+> I just want to have a mirrored data disk (consisting of two identical 
+> disks).
+> 
+> I found http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/, but it applies for 
+> mirroring a system disk.
+> 
+> I went through:
+> 
+> gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0s1 /dev/ad3s1
+> gmirror load
+> gmirror configure -a gm0s1
+> gmirror insert gm0s1 /dev/ad2s1
+> add 'geom_mirror_load="YES"' in /boot/loader.conf
+> 
+> It loads ok and if I type:
+> 
+> "gmirror list"
+> 
+> I get the "Providers" and "Consumers" list which all looks ok.
+> 
+> But how do I access the mirror? Where can I put my data?
+> 
+> I tried adding /dev/mirror/gm0s1 to /etc/fstab, but it dies when loading...
+> 
+> Any hints?

Just to be sure: did you create file system on it?

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