From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 17:37:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D13E37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE5443FB1 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 51F0B527A7; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:07:05 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:07:05 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: pkddeckard@ziplip.com Message-ID: <20030612003705.GG57496@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:37:11 -0000 --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 10:51:57 -0700, pkddeckard@ziplip.com wrote: > I'm considering migrating a Linux server over to 4.8-RELEASE. The > Linux server has a bootable software RAID set up, where there are > three disks configured for a RAID-1 volume, two of which are > currently active and one of which serves as a standby disk (to allow > for two disk failures in close proximity). > > I've looked through both of the manpages for vinum and Chapter 13 of > the Handbook, but I can't seem to locate any kind of similar > feature. Am I missing something, or will I have to write my own > program to handle configuring standby disks in case of a failure? You don't need a program for that. Vinum currently doesn't have the standby feature, mainly because I can't think of a way to do it which won't cause problems under some circumstances. If you want to dedicate a disk to this feature, why not simply configure three plexes? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+58sxIubykFB6QiMRAvbVAJ9KLrhcYuf2ja4LL2qsbV7iUwiXsQCgh5Cj 8Ou3m6iRQ8I5mMJiWJV7SlU= =wWRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC--