From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 12:36:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03835 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03794 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA15968; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:36:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Haro cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd mirroring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" 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