From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 20 10:43:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2983E16A403 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: from kgb.rdsbv.ro (kgb.rdsbv.ro [82.78.148.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CE943D72 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:43:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petre@kgb.ro) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kgb.rdsbv.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4601411ED0 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:46:55 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kgb.rdsbv.ro Received: from kgb.rdsbv.ro ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kgb.rdsbv.ro [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dC+giZz8fZ1G for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:46:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kgb.rdsbv.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E1611716 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:46:52 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:46:51 +0200 From: Petre Bandac To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061120124651.50c26eb5@localhost> Organization: my own organization X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_p14jYJ7qs+Xle3Nw3PJsY/p"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Subject: raid advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:43:39 -0000 --Sig_p14jYJ7qs+Xle3Nw3PJsY/p Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hallo I have had a previous experience with gmirror raid 1 following dru lavigne's howto (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html) however, it did not behave as I expected (and as other raid arrays I have on linux - if a disk is removed, the system keeps working and on reboot the array is ran in degraded mode) I have manually pulled out a disk from the array and upon booting I was put to a console to specify the root filesystem and so on I have the following question: what is your choice of software raid on freebsd if behaviour on disk failures (this implies the time for hot-adding disks to array, reconstructing, recovering data, debugging, etc is at the minimum) is the most important criterion ? thanks, petre --=20 Petre Bandac Network Scientist - petre@kgb.ro --Sig_p14jYJ7qs+Xle3Nw3PJsY/p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFYYebygb/8u7LqpgRAhhMAKCr7MxznSETQ+1qW4ze6OjkQbS+7QCfWp+g ROGbADVaX6SGxvFU7BKX6+U= =YVi2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_p14jYJ7qs+Xle3Nw3PJsY/p--