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Re: Mirrored Disks
From:
Steve Dirickson <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Dirickson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:45:24 -0700
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> > At the risk of asking a stupid question: has anyone
> actually *tried* this,
> > or are we all just reading the "Mirrored Disk/iX" manual to
> each other?
>
> Yes, people have - unintentionally :-) - tried it and it does
> not work.
> The situation you will run into is that a repair operation
> from a larger
> to a smaller disk size will get hung at the point when the target is
> 'full'.

Except that the question was about replacing a failed array member with a
larger drive. And others seem to have indicated that that operation worked
fine.

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