RE: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-12 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Gayn Winters disse: > Gmirror (geom) will do it in anticipation of the second disk. In fact, > it is the recommended way to bootstrap a software mirror. Just do the > first couple steps of: > http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/ > > Alternatively, do the first few

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-12 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Vasil Dimov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But I'd like to ask if it'd theoretically be possible to create the RAID1 array (ar0) with only one disk and add the second one later? It'd work like a broken array for some time. It's just an idea :) Find some unused disk, p

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Vasil Dimov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > But I'd like to ask if it'd theoretically be possible to create the RAID1 > array (ar0) with only one disk and add the second one later? It'd work > like a broken array for some time. It's just an idea :) > Find some unused disk, plug it into t

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 7/11/05, Giovanni P. Tirloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be able to work on this server right now and add the second disk when > it arrives without reinstalling everything. Mirroring via software (gmirror) is not an option? aaron.glenn ___ free

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Aaron Glenn disse: > On 7/11/05, Giovanni P. Tirloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But I'd like to ask if it'd theoretically be possible to create the >> RAID1 >> array (ar0) with only one disk and add the second one later? It'd work >> like a broken array for some time. It's just an idea :) > >

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 7/11/05, Giovanni P. Tirloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I'd like to ask if it'd theoretically be possible to create the RAID1 > array (ar0) with only one disk and add the second one later? It'd work > like a broken array for some time. It's just an idea :) What is the advantage of buildi

Re: Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 11:38, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > But I'd like to ask if it'd theoretically be possible to create the RAID1 > array (ar0) with only one disk and add the second one later? It'd work > like a broken array for some time. It's just an idea :) I haven't been able to do this :

Odd ataraid situation

2005-07-11 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Hi, I've to start working on a new server right now that should use ataraid for RAID mirroring but the customer shipped a box with only one disk and the second one won't arrive soon for many reasons. I know ataraid can't build a RAID mirror without two disks and I've already checked both atacon