Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:47:43 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gmirror disks vs partitions Message-ID: <20070117054743.1922dd6e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20070117103935.GC4018@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:39:36 +0000 Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> wrote: > A poll for opinions if I may? > > I've got a few gmirrors running on various machines, all of which > pair up two drives at the physical level (i.e. mirror /dev/ad0s1 > with /dev/ad1s1). Of course there are other ways of doing it to, > like mirroring at the partition level, ie pairing /dev/ad0s1a with > /dev/ad1s1a, /dev/ad0s1e with /dev/ad0s1e, etc. > > Apart from potentially avoiding a whole disk from being copied > during a resync after a crash, are there any other advantages to > using partition level mirroring instead of drive level mirroring? Would you replace the disk anyway? -- Tom Rhodes
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