Gabe wrote:
Now with a gstripe+gmirror setup, would it be possible to fail a specific drive on purpose? I mean fail a (good) drive, pull it out, replace it and rebuild(?) it. I know I know, but humor me.
Yes.
Cheers,
Matthew
Well, to 'fail' the drive, you'ld have to physically pull the drive
from the chassis which will involve a power cycle unless you've got
hot-swap drives. Of course, you should confirm that your system will
boot with the RAID in a degraded state and that rebuilding the RAID will
continue even if interrupted by a reboot. gmirror(8) passes those
tests. You do have to type some commands to get a mirror to rebuild
(examples are shown in the man page) unlike some hardware RAIDs where
simply inserting an unused disk is sufficient.
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