Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 06:18:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>, Frans Haarman <F.Haarman@giessen.nl> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror magic ? Message-ID: <113923.97279.qm@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <46373A9C.8020106@freebsd.org>
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--- Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 05/01/07 07:24, Frans Haarman wrote: > > Can someone explain this to me ? I was testing gmirror/gstripe and > > decided to > > remove the vnode files stripe0 & stripe1. This resulted in a mirror > > which kept on > > working..... > > So the files that the md devices r based on r away? But while md still exists, the inode still exists... So: In their directory those files r deleted, but in the file system their inode still exists. That is why the md devices r still there and why the gmirror can still write to them... -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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