On Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 08:38:39AM -0700, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> Some good suggestions here, thanks guys.
>
> Do I >DID< imagine some built in support for making use of this space?
>
I believe ZFS manages to do this better, but I've not looked into this
in any detail yet.
> As a side note. when i do a repair or check on my array.. does it
> check the WHOLE DRIVE.. or just the part that is being used? I.e. in
> my case.. I have a 1TB drive but only an array multiple of 500GB.. i'd
> like to think it is checking the whole whack as it may have to take
> over some day...
>
The repair/check just recalculates the checksums for the data drives and
verifies that the parity drive holds the correct data. This can only be
done within the region used by the array.
Cheers,
Robin
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