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How-to: RAID1 with MD on two identical disks

Being the first guide of this kind, I’d like to talk about a fresh experience I just had with this server. I was running an unusual setup: two disks, one of which contained the OS on a 40Gb partition, and a ZFS pool where I mounted the home partition, libvirt folder etc (960Gb + 1Tb on second disk). The server didn’t have any backups, so in case of fatal failure of the disk containing...