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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Haro <perl@netmug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ccd mirroring
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204123341.15689H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980203210930.12681A-100000@netmug.org>

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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Michael Haro wrote:

> I was reading about ccd and how it can be used to mirror data kinda like
> RAID level 1.
> 
> If one of the drives crash, how would I remedy the crash?
> The drives I currently have are different sizes, would this cause a
> problem when using ccd?

Yes, it's not permitted.  CCD must use homogenous disks.

Recovering a mirrored disk involves bringing over a disklabel and fixing
some other bits.  It's not a seamless recovery, but the data is still
there.  I'm not familiar with the entire procedure but someone probably
figured it out at some point and posted about it :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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