>Gadi Oxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Even if we do not survive the failure, the redundancy that RAID provides >is still valuable. On the next boot after the failure, we will be able >to continue working in degraded mode with the working drives. > No i cant afford System hanging. I m uising raid for file server. and in my case while a user copying data to the server and a disk goes doen then srver do nothing but hanged. At that time administrator have to restart the server manually and since system is hanged he cant do it remotely have to operate from console (In my case i have to power off the System). >To be able to survive the failure and continue working is not so >simple since in addition to the RAID layer, the low level disk drivers, >the bus controller and the devices have to survive the failure. > >Gadi ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
