Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:21:19 -0700 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum and hot-swapping Message-ID: <001b01c34835$6cc93ca0$f9f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <000e01c34830$6e543bb0$f9f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <20030712045247.GL24420@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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>Depends on what you mean. Vinum isn't a hardware device driver, so it >doesn't need to understand hot swapping. If you hot swap a drive, >Vinum handles the resulting events correctly. So if I have a drive fail, say in a RAID 5 configuration, I don't have to detach it at all? Just swap them out and vinum will automatically begin rebuilding the array? Also, what would you say the minimum processor requirement would be? I know RAID 5 is quite taxing compared to mirroring or plain striping. Thanks, Mike
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