gmirror with hot spare

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at gmail.com
Sun Apr 30 11:25:57 UTC 2006


On 4/25/06, Vladimir Terziev <vlady at gbservices.biz> wrote:
>
>         Hi hackers,
>
>         is there a way to assign a hot spare disk/partition to a gmirror -ed disks/partitions ?

There's no sense in it, is there? When we have RAID5 hot
spare is needed, because we don't know what drive will
fail first. When we have gmirror, it doesn't matter! Just add
another drive to gmirror and take it easy.


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