On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:03 AM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:39 AM Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-u...@dybdal.dk> > wrote: > >> I would hope that the most recently modified half of the array would be >> the one to overwrite the least recently modified one, so that a >> temporary absence of one disk which later comes back unmodified, will >> not destroy data. >> >> Is that how it works? >> > > ..... > ....the failed drive is simply removed and destroyed, then replaced with a > brand new drive and re-mirrored. If you have hundreds or thousands of > servers, weelll..... there's another good argument for virtualisation. Said > your boss :-) > And also an argument in favor of using only SSD, now that we're past the first couple generations of it which were quite unreliable. -- >> Jesper Dybdal >> https://www.dybdal.dk >> >>