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From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: gmirror magic ?
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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

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