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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring
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On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 10:46:36AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> booting off mirrored disks isn't too hard.
> booting off striped disks is a real problem

Right.  The same applies to RAID, of course.  I've got some ideas
about how to handle it, but I want to get the basic functions sorted
out first.

Greg