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Date:      Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:10:57 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>
Cc:        "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Drive Mirroring
Message-ID:  <19971129151057.57891@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 03:22:12PM %2B1100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128192019.1020A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> <199711290422.PAA23032@mother.sneaker.net.au>

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On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 03:22:12PM +1100, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
>> -----[ Jamil J. Weatherbee ]------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Would a software RAID implementation be able to cope with having a drive
>> removed?
>
> The last implementation I saw of software RAID on Solaris didn't
> (about two years ago).
>
> It wouldn't boot from the secondary drives, 

Booting is a different matter.  It's a lot more complicated, since you
need to explain RAID to the bootstrap.  I don't think that's
feasible.  But once the system is up and running, all other file
systems should be able to be RAID.

Greg


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