Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:28:25 +1000 From: David Cecil <david.cecil@nokia.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 1 via ataraid(4) Message-ID: <475DAF79.9080900@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <20071210201734.GA16012@VARK.MIT.EDU> References: <20071210201734.GA16012@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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Hi David, there's no reason you can't mirror the rootfs using gmirror. We do it all the time. Regards, Dave ext David Schultz wrote: > I'm looking at getting a new box and wondering what people's > experiences are with mirroring via ataraid(4) and various > motherboards. Does it work? Does it tell you when a drive fails? > Does it do the right thing when you put in a replacement? Does it > work if the two drives aren't identical? Is performance > acceptable? > > At the moment I'm using gmirror (previously ccd until GEOM came > along and ccd became unstable) with a dedicated unmirrored OS > disk. But in accordance with Murphy's law, I've had the boot disk > fail twice in the past five years, so I'd like to put the damn > root fs on the mirror. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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