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Article:		Using Software RAID-1 with FreeBSD
Subject:		What if one of the drives fail?
Date:		2006-01-28 21:15:30
From:		ayam666

The article is good, simple to follow, but does not actually explain the procedure of replacing the hard disk if any one of them fails. Someone has posted a similar question and it seems that no one (including the author) can answer it yet. Googling it returns nothing either. Maybe because it is a new thing and not many people have implemented it yet. What a shame.

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What if one of the drives fail?
2006-01-29 08:21:19 Dru Lavigne | [View]

Actually "man gmirror" has some easy to follow examples if a drive fails. While I haven't had a drive fail, in my testing I physically removed a drive and the rebooted OS kept perking along. I then replaced the drive with an empty one and was successfully able to restore the mirror. One of those things that is better to try once on a test system rather than wait until an emergency :-)