Hand on gmirror (Was: Re: gmirror bugs, how many?)

[Alexandr Kovalenko]

Hello, Pawel Jakub Dawidek!

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:59:25PM +0100, you wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:27:51PM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:
> +> I finally got the system to boot with gmirror fully enabled.  But I got 
> +> this during boot:
> +> 
> +> 
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0 created (id=3592859320).
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider ad0s1 detected.
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider ad1s1 detected.
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider ad1s1 activated.
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk ad0s1 (error=1).
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider ad0s1 activated.
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider mirror/vol0 launched.
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Cannot update metadata on disk ad0s1 (error=1).
> +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device vol0: provider ad0s1 disconnected.
> 
> This is known race, which is already fixed in HEAD. I want to commit it
> soon.

Any plans on backporting it to RELENG_5 (RELENG_5_3 maybe?)?

To be on original topic - is there any way to make a mirror from live
system? I mean I have running FreeBSD on da0 and I want to make a
gmirror on it (I'm planning to add second drive soon). How to avoid
those disklabel warnings correctly?

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