From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 28 20:41:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02516 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from daemon.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02507 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by daemon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA23000; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:10:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971129151057.57891@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:10:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring References: <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 03:22:12PM +1100 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 03:22:12PM +1100, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >> -----[ Jamil J. Weatherbee ]------------------------------ >> >> >> Would a software RAID implementation be able to cope with having a drive >> removed? > > The last implementation I saw of software RAID on Solaris didn't > (about two years ago). > > It wouldn't boot from the secondary drives, Booting is a different matter. It's a lot more complicated, since you need to explain RAID to the bootstrap. I don't think that's feasible. But once the system is up and running, all other file systems should be able to be RAID. Greg