From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 21:38:58 2004 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 503F716A4CF for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:38:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.mi.is (smtp.mi.is [217.151.180.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CEB43D2D for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thib@mi.is) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (thib.pentagon.ms [217.151.165.254]) by smtp.mi.is (8.12.10/8.12.10/1.0.1) with ESMTP id i9RLcpnF004394 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:38:51 GMT Message-ID: <412FAA46.70105@mi.is> From: "Thordur I." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Software or hardware RAID1. (gstripe) 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: , Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:38:58 -0000 X-Original-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:40:22 +0000 X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:38:58 -0000 Iīm currently trying to decide upon a sultion on how to go about keepin my data safe. Now, a RAID1 setup sounds good in this position. But I canīt seem to find an answer to one question. Letīs say that I have 2x 120Gb (ad1 and ad2) disk. I stripe them wich should give something like /dev/stripe/foo (either with gstripe or a hardware raid controler.) Now I fill this striped volume with data, and ad1 dies. What happenīs ? Does gstripe alert my that ad1 has died and will I still be able to access /dev/stripe/foo ? And when I shut the box down, remove ad1 and insert another (identical disk) to restore the stripe, what then ? (assume the same bus ofcourse) I have tryed to google this up but to no avail. Any help is well appriceated. With kind regards, Thordur I. PS: CC my for Iīm not on the list. (Btw, do list members consider this a bother for if so I would just subscripe to the list (currently though Iīm supscried to what I think are to many lists :))