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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