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Marko Cupać
Hosting services is much more fun when we can be sure that malfunction of a single disk won't shut down services and cause data loss. FreeBSD Handbook has a chapter about Creating a Mirror with Two New Disks, but it suggests some outdated practices such as legacy BIOS boot and MBR partitioning scheme as opposed to UEFI boot and GPT partitoning scheme described in this article. Furthermore, contrary to examples in FreeBSD Handbook which use device nodes such as ada directly, this article describes using geom labels for gmirror creation. Finally, we set our fstab using custom gpt labels as oposed to automatically created partitions under /dev/mirror/ described in FreeBSD Handbook.
