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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:39:06 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Danny Edge <nocmonkey@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Software RAID options
Message-ID:  <201001300939.07061.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <addc34c61001292027m34ed7a21m723f619a5be15362@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <addc34c61001291937s43986912sa846adb5dea69c21@mail.gmail.com> <20100130041805.GA60266@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> <addc34c61001292027m34ed7a21m723f619a5be15362@mail.gmail.com>

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On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote:

> Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror
> mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror
> for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk).

It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather than an entire 
disk <http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/>; so you could create 
matching slices on the disks and still have the spare space of the 
larger disk available for use as non-mirrored space.

-- 
Mike Clarke



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