RAID 1 via ataraid(4)

[Antony Mawer]

On 11/12/2007 8:49 AM, David Schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007, David Cecil wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> there's no reason you can't mirror the rootfs using gmirror.  We do it 
>> all the time.
> 
> Good point, thanks. I'd forgotten that gmirror stores its metadata
> at the end of the drive instead of at the beginning as ccd does.
> Nevertheless, I'd be interested in what people's experiences have
> been with ataraid(4), particularly since it's more flexible in
> terms of putting multiple operating systems on different
> partitions of the same mirror.

I don't think ataraid does automatic rebuilds when you replace the 
drive... from memory I think you need to manually kick off a rebuild 
process after replacing one of the drives.

--Antony