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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 14:33:15 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>
Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Drive Mirroring
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On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 07:31:11PM -0800, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote:
>
> Would a software RAID implementation be able to cope with having a drive
> removed?  When the drive is reconnected it should simply take care of
> bringing it up to date or completely remaking it from the current
> master.

Briefly, yes.  I'm working on this implementation.  If you're
interested, I can give some details as soon as I get this book off my
back.

Greg