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    ZFS mirror (RAID 1) question

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      faktorqm
      last edited by faktorqm

      Hi there, Currently I have pfsense 2.4 with UFS in one mSATA disk. I want to change my installation departing with a 2.6 installer and two mSATA (same size each). The rest of the hardware will remain the same. It's not Netgate hardware.

      What I want: I want pfsense start as usual (or continue working depending the case) if one drive fails or die.

      My question is: Is ZFS mirror configuration the correct solution for what I want? Or in the case of failure I need to insert a new disk and go trough a resilvering process and this will prevent pfsense booting normally?

      Thank you for reading.

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        rcoleman-netgate Netgate @faktorqm
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        @faktorqm If you want to not lose your system or data when the drive fails mirror is the way to go.

        Resilvering would be utilized when you are replacing a failed drive with another one after the failure.

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          Cool_Corona @faktorqm
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          @faktorqm Use hardware raid and run it virtualized....

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            faktorqm
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            Thanks both for the answers :)

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