Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:09:59 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum concat and disk failure Message-ID: <20030407073959.GB46511@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030407072822.GE4573@speedy.unibe.ch> References: <20030407072822.GE4573@speedy.unibe.ch>
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--oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 7 April 2003 at 9:28:22 +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > 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? If you only have one plex, you'll lose the data on that drive only. > And if a recovery of the data on the unaffected drives is possible, > how difficult will that be? In the unlikely event that you can still access the file system, you can use normal tools to copy them, etc. But it's unlikely that there will be much left to recover. That's why Vinum includes methods such as RAID-[145]. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+kStPIubykFB6QiMRAkToAKCBsuoA8bNfYR2ciZ+TMJI0fClRpwCgl0tt Ct3yOZfmyCzm0nXsB1D3b4k= =iCWv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3--
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