On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:08:09PM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:29:51PM +0100, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Nate Lawson wrote: > > > > I'd like to have a mirrored root partition. I tried ccd(4) but the boot > > > > blocks couldn't find the fs. Any idea how much work it would take to > > > > enable booting a ccd root? Also, does vinum already support this? > > > > > > If you use ATA drives you can use atacontrol to make the mirror on > > > two ATA disks, but there are some gotcha's, see atacontrol(1).... > > > > > > > Using non-raid controllers for building raid-arrays would be a cool feature > > if `atacontrol rebuild` would work... Is there simple way, i.e. without > > copying the content of the array to a temporary location, to recover from > > disk-failures when doing raid1 on non-raid controllers ? > > The problem is that if its the drive that on you primary channel that > dies, not all BIOS's can be taught to boot from the other drive on > the secondary channel. The solution is to swap the drives... >
Well, and how would one rebuild the array after swaping the drive from the secondary channel to the primary and hooking up a replacement drive to the secondary channel or if one doesn't want to boot from the array at all ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
