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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:35:16 +0100
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        Rink Springer <rink@il.fontys.nl>
Cc:        Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: opinion on which software RAID to use
Message-ID:  <20060302203516.GA28378@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl>
References:  <AD79084E-2D70-47E3-ABF7-ED633BB8B446@khera.org> <20060302193003.GB95124@il.fontys.nl>

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Hi, all!

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:30:03PM +0100, Rink Springer wrote:

> I've had very good results with gmirror. It's very easy to set up,
> performance is good (didn't really benchmark it though) and recovering
> faulty drives is easy to do. Never had a problem with it ...

Seconded. Go, read Ralf Engelschall's great instructions on
how to setup a gmirror system drive:

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200502/diskmirror.html

IMHO this should be put somewhere more prominent.
It could easily replace this section in the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html

HTH,
Patrick
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