Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 12th Nov 2005 18:15 UTC, submitted by SQwerl
Have you ever needed a software RAID solution for a low-end server install? Perhaps you've wanted your workstation to take advantage of the redundancy provided by a disk mirror without investing in a hardware RAID controller. Has a prior painful configuration experience turned you off software RAID altogether on Unix systems? Read more at OnLamp.
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Maybe it will provide less performance gains than a hardware solution. But then again hardware raid adds the controller as a point of failure and possible data loss, depending on the kind of controller.
With gmirror I was able to pull one of the drives from an active system, while compiling world, with only a momentary pause. That was in a two drive system so it was booted from the mirror volume.