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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:14:14 +1100
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-fs@mawer.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID 1 via ataraid(4)
Message-ID:  <475DBA36.3020101@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071210214936.GA16598@VARK.MIT.EDU>
References:  <20071210201734.GA16012@VARK.MIT.EDU> <475DAF79.9080900@nokia.com> <20071210214936.GA16598@VARK.MIT.EDU>

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On 11/12/2007 8:49 AM, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, David Cecil wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> there's no reason you can't mirror the rootfs using gmirror.  We do it 
>> all the time.
> 
> Good point, thanks. I'd forgotten that gmirror stores its metadata
> at the end of the drive instead of at the beginning as ccd does.
> Nevertheless, I'd be interested in what people's experiences have
> been with ataraid(4), particularly since it's more flexible in
> terms of putting multiple operating systems on different
> partitions of the same mirror.

I don't think ataraid does automatic rebuilds when you replace the 
drive... from memory I think you need to manually kick off a rebuild 
process after replacing one of the drives.

--Antony



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