Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:08:36 -0700 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: to gmirror or to ZFS Message-ID: <6CE5718E-2646-4D8C-AF98-37384B8851C5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOaKuAVULVuZxtExp=mNi-J7kMNbsxbLJVsv8nKTA0-Ru6M3%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DFBC539-3CCC-4B9B-AB62-7BB846F18530@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1307152211180.74094@wonkity.com> <976836C5-F790-4D55-A80C-5944E8BC2575@gmail.com> <51E51558.50302@ShaneWare.Biz> <51E52190.7020008@fjl.co.uk> <CAOaKuAVULVuZxtExp=mNi-J7kMNbsxbLJVsv8nKTA0-Ru6M3%2Bw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi-- On Jul 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> = wrote: [ ... ] > I would us a zfs for the os. > I have a couple of servers that did not survive a power failure with > gmirror. > The problems i had was when the power failed one disk was in a = rebuilding > state and then when the background fsck started or was busy for some = time > it would crash the whole server. Well, "don't do that". :-) Seriously, bring up the box on one disk, force a foreground fsck if = needed to get the filesystem to known clean state, and then rebuild the mirror. Mixing the mirror rebuild with something like an fsck will just thrash = the disks. [ ... ] > Before people tell me to use an UPS, i used a UPS but the damn thing = gave > way itself. Then after it came back from the warranty repair it gave = way again. Grr. That's when you want find another UPS vendor. Regards, --=20 -Chuck
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