I just swapped out a drive which was involved in a gmirror swap. This is the current status: $ gmirror status Name Status Components mirror/swap DEGRADED da0p2 (ACTIVE) da2p2 (ACTIVE) da3p2 (ACTIVE) da4p2 (ACTIVE) da5p2 (ACTIVE) da9p2 (ACTIVE) da10p2 (ACTIVE) Here is how I can fix that: sudo gmirror forget swap The above tells gmirror […]
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This is mostly a note to myself. #### Edit: 2018.09.08 : If you see messages like this: $ sudo gmirror insert swap /dev/da5p2 gmirror: Class not found $ gmirror list -a gmirror: Command ‘list’ not available. You probably need to do this: sudo kldload geom_mirror #### I had these drives: They are involved in this
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Ever wondered if software RAID is faster/slower than hardware RAID? I’m going to find out. It’s not complete, and I just thought of an extension, but What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? is a work in progress. The extention I mention is to compare i386 against amd64. I may do that if
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