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Subject: RE: Recovering Gvinum RAID5 after a crash
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Schuendehuette [mailto:msch@snafu.de] 
> Sent: Friday, 12 November 2004 2:45 AM
> To: freebsd@newmillennium.net.au
> Subject: Re: Recovering Gvinum RAID5 after a crash
> 
> But, honestly, you really *do* know that a RAID5-Array protects you 
> against single disk failures and not against double faults?

Hi Matt,

The drives themselves are physically fine, and completely readable. My
guess is that the machine locked up during a write, but I really can't
give a definite answer on that.

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