ccdconfig.8 (ae919cce4a5ec3af4044dbb354a42fb301ae245f) ccdconfig.8 (b94231dacac553c3cfd4d0917f87231a65727bf2)
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177An error on a ccd disk is usually unrecoverable unless you are using the
178mirroring option. But mirroring has its own perils: It assumes that
179both copies of the data at any given sector are the same. This holds true
180until a write error occurs or until you replace either side of the mirror.
181.Nm Ccd
182uses a poor-man's mirroring implementation. It works well enough that if
183you begin to get disk errors you should be able to backup the ccd disk,
184replace the broken hardware, and then regenerate the ccd disk. If you need
1.\" $NetBSD: ccdconfig.8,v 1.1.2.1 1995/11/11 02:43:33 thorpej Exp $
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3.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Jason R. Thorpe.
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177An error on a ccd disk is usually unrecoverable unless you are using the
178mirroring option. But mirroring has its own perils: It assumes that
179both copies of the data at any given sector are the same. This holds true
180until a write error occurs or until you replace either side of the mirror.
181.Nm Ccd
182uses a poor-man's mirroring implementation. It works well enough that if
183you begin to get disk errors you should be able to backup the ccd disk,
184replace the broken hardware, and then regenerate the ccd disk. If you need
185more then this you should look into external hardware RAID SCSI boxes,
185more than this you should look into external hardware RAID SCSI boxes,
186RAID controllers such as the
187.Nm dpt
188controller, or software RAID systems such as
189.Nm vinum .
190.Sh FILES
191.Bl -tag -width /etc/ccd.conf -compact
192.It Pa /etc/ccd.conf
193default ccd configuration file
194.El
195.Sh SEE ALSO
196.Xr ccd 4 ,
197.Xr rc 8 ,
198.Xr vinum 8
199.Sh HISTORY
200The
201.Nm
202command first appeared in
203.Nx 1.0a .
186RAID controllers such as the
187.Nm dpt
188controller, or software RAID systems such as
189.Nm vinum .
190.Sh FILES
191.Bl -tag -width /etc/ccd.conf -compact
192.It Pa /etc/ccd.conf
193default ccd configuration file
194.El
195.Sh SEE ALSO
196.Xr ccd 4 ,
197.Xr rc 8 ,
198.Xr vinum 8
199.Sh HISTORY
200The
201.Nm
202command first appeared in
203.Nx 1.0a .