On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:33 PM, David W. McSpadden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or take one drive out, clean it, put it back, take the other
> drive out, clean it, put it back.  Making sure to put back
> where they belong and then boot???

  Yikes!

  That will still break the mirror.  Or worse, give you two divergent
mirror members which the RAID implementation *doesn't* recognize are
different, and scramble the filesystem.

  RAID works at the disk block level, and is unaware of filesystem
semantics.  The OS and filesystem implementation are unaware of what
RAID does.  The OS/FS may write filesystem blocks in *completely
different* places, despite you giving similar inputs.

  You could pick one drive, clean that drive, reinsert that drive, and
tell the RAID implementation to re-mirror from that drive to the other
one.

-- Ben

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