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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:58:34 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Danny Carroll <danny@dannysplace.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with Vinum disk crash...
Message-ID:  <20040223042834.GU87020@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1077180395.4prky8v4skqo@mailsrv.dannysplace.net>
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On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at  9:46:35 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote:
> Tony et al,..
>
> Thanks for the information...  I really need the space now so I am going to wipe
> it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again.
>
> I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, the
> ufs filesystem got corrupted and I really did not expect that to
> happen.

It normally doesn't.  There's something else going on here.

> Another thing, Greg, you mentioned that I should have a second plex
> if I wanted to protect the data.  You mean like a mirror?  Surely 1
> is enough when we are talking raid-5?

Yes, sorry.  You need either RAID-5 or two plexes.

Greg
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