I'm doing my first install of FreeBSD soon and my plan is to boot my first FreeBSD system off mirrored CF cards.
My understanding is that the current install utility is not well suited to doing complicated things at install time. I'm OK with taking my install and mirroring it later.
It looks like gmirror is the prefered way to do mirroring and GPT is the preferred way to do partitioning. However I have read that they can conflict, because they both try to use same area at end of disk.
Is it possible to setup gmirror first and then set GPT to only take up the first X blocks? Should I maybe just mirror my root partition? What happens with boot and swap data then? Am I better off just not using GPT and/or gmirror? What about VVM?
Thanks!
PS: I did consider using ZFS for root; have read some guides on how to do it, but it looks like that would just be more complex!
My understanding is that the current install utility is not well suited to doing complicated things at install time. I'm OK with taking my install and mirroring it later.
It looks like gmirror is the prefered way to do mirroring and GPT is the preferred way to do partitioning. However I have read that they can conflict, because they both try to use same area at end of disk.
Is it possible to setup gmirror first and then set GPT to only take up the first X blocks? Should I maybe just mirror my root partition? What happens with boot and swap data then? Am I better off just not using GPT and/or gmirror? What about VVM?
Thanks!
PS: I did consider using ZFS for root; have read some guides on how to do it, but it looks like that would just be more complex!