Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:10:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring Message-ID: <19971129151057.57891@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 03:22:12PM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128192019.1020A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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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
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