Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:07:05 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: pkddeckard@ziplip.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum question Message-ID: <20030612003705.GG57496@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <DUD2NQLYAJJYAAOLJ3ONPWIMEBBVNSJRCOIHBUDY@ziplip.com> References: <DUD2NQLYAJJYAAOLJ3ONPWIMEBBVNSJRCOIHBUDY@ziplip.com>
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--t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 11 June 2003 at 10:51:57 -0700, pkddeckard@ziplip.com wrote: > I'm considering migrating a Linux server over to 4.8-RELEASE. The > Linux server has a bootable software RAID set up, where there are > three disks configured for a RAID-1 volume, two of which are > currently active and one of which serves as a standby disk (to allow > for two disk failures in close proximity). > > I've looked through both of the manpages for vinum and Chapter 13 of > the Handbook, but I can't seem to locate any kind of similar > feature. Am I missing something, or will I have to write my own > program to handle configuring standby disks in case of a failure? You don't need a program for that. Vinum currently doesn't have the standby feature, mainly because I can't think of a way to do it which won't cause problems under some circumstances. If you want to dedicate a disk to this feature, why not simply configure three plexes? 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 --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+58sxIubykFB6QiMRAvbVAJ9KLrhcYuf2ja4LL2qsbV7iUwiXsQCgh5Cj 8Ou3m6iRQ8I5mMJiWJV7SlU= =wWRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --t4apE7yKrX2dGgJC--
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