Help with Vinum disk crash...
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 22 20:28:38 PST 2004
On Thursday, 19 February 2004 at 9:46:35 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote:
> Tony et al,..
>
> Thanks for the information... I really need the space now so I am going to wipe
> it and start from scratch, although I am not sure if I will use vinum again.
>
> I guess my main concern is that when one of my disks crashed, the
> ufs filesystem got corrupted and I really did not expect that to
> happen.
It normally doesn't. There's something else going on here.
> Another thing, Greg, you mentioned that I should have a second plex
> if I wanted to protect the data. You mean like a mirror? Surely 1
> is enough when we are talking raid-5?
Yes, sorry. You need either RAID-5 or two plexes.
Greg
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