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From: "Rex Roof" <rexroof@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: mirror/stripe freezing under FreeBSD 5.5
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This is scary, I don't have an easy spot to back this data up.

Also, if this array used to work great in a different machine, I'm not
sure how this might repair the problem.


On 9/29/06, R. B. Riddick <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Rex Roof <rexroof@gmail.com> wrote:
> > can I do that without corrupting my data?
> > how would that be done?
> >
> Hmm...
>
> I am not sure...
>
> I would suggest the following:
>
> 1. Make a good nice old-fashioned backup to tape or so. :-) And verify it! ;-)
>
> 2. Split ur big-geom-device into two
> 2.1 by removing disks from the mirrors and
> 2.2 by creating a new big-geom-device (with big stripe and slice)
>
> 3. copy data from old big-geom-device to the new one.
>
> 4. destroy the _old_ big-geom-device
>
> 5. insert the free disks to ur new big-geom-device
>
> Increasing slice size of a gmirror-device should be possible via configure...
> But changing the stripe size of a gstripe-device is not so easy... :)
>
> -Arne
>
>
> ---
>
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