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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> 
> RAID1.  I'm looking into gmirror, but it seems like it might be messy if
> one of the drives dies.

What makes you say that?

I have gmirror running and I simulated drive failures on both controllers,
and reconstructed the provider with no problems.  Even did some hard 
power failures and everthing worked fine.  Gmirror is very nice!