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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:28:22 +0200
From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
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Subject: vinum concat and disk failure
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Hi

I built a disk concat with vinum and several old harddisks. What
happens if, say, one of the drives in the middle or any other drive
breaks? Will the whole array be unusable, or will I only lose the
data on the broken drive? And if a recovery of the data on the un-
affected drives is possible, how difficult will that be?

thx, t.