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In this case "clone" means "dump a copy of
Nothing other than what's shown above takes place from one
And yes, there is a reason for the mirror to be corrupted. It's well known
Installing FreeBSD with gmirror (software RAID 1) and the GPT partitioning scheme
... By default gmirror and the GPT partitioning scheme do not get along. This is because both GEOM (the provider for gmirror) and GPT write meta data at the end of the disk. ...
UFS
data from mirror/gm0
to mirror/gm1
. The commands shown above, and only the commands shown above, create the metadata. The metadata is created manually as shown above and not cloned from a dump.Nothing other than what's shown above takes place from one
reboot
to the next reboot
. In other words, one or more of the commands shown above is the only available "something" to corrupt the metadata.And yes, there is a reason for the mirror to be corrupted. It's well known
GPT
doesn't work with mirrored drives.Installing FreeBSD with gmirror (software RAID 1) and the GPT partitioning scheme
... By default gmirror and the GPT partitioning scheme do not get along. This is because both GEOM (the provider for gmirror) and GPT write meta data at the end of the disk. ...