Ben Collver wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:28:03PM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> > I don't do this for performance, but for safety.  It means that the
> > other filesystems are still fully mirrored until I can swap in a new
> > disk.  I figure there's no point in degrading all filesystems on a
> > disk if you only have a single disk error.
> 
> That makes sense.  Have you experienced any disk errors yet?  How did it
> go?

I've been lucky recently (touch-wood), but RAIDframe saved my bacon more
than once back when I had a series of IBM deathstars go belly up on me.
Recovery back then when well - I think the sequence was pretty much:

 - a disk failed
 - I put in the replacement and disklabled it
 - added new partitions as spares 
 - rebuilds happened
 - I was happy!

Simon.
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