Re: Mirror-Set vs. Partition-Set

From: Mike Naime (mnaime_at_kc.rr.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 05:52:32 GMT

Keith Parris <keithparris_NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Mike Naime" <mnaime@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > Before I partitioned a storageset, I would CAREFULLY read the manual
about
> > the effects of partitioning and the ability of a spareset drive to
replace a
> > disk that is partitioned. (It doesn't)
>
> This doesn't make sense to me.
>
> If you have a mirrorset, and a member disk fails, that disk can be
> replaced with a disk from the spareset. This works regardless of
> whether the mirrorset is partitioned or not. (The spareset member does
> need to be the same size disk (or larger) as the smallest disk in the
> mirrorset, of course, not just the size of any individual partition on
> the mirrorset.)

Don't you just love Technical writers. :-)

Example: I have a 36GB mirrorset. I have 2-18's, 2-36's, and 2-72 GB
disks in my spareset. If I have a drive failure of a 36GB member, I could
have either a 36GB or 72GB disk autospare into that mirrorset. I could not
have the 18GB disk become a member of that mirrorset.

Or, If I had a 146GB mirrorset with the same spareset members (18,36,72),
none of them would work as spare disks for that 146GB mirrorset.

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