Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 04/09/2010 10:21 AM:
My experience with RAID is all from windows - but it may translate to
Linux.
I would have ask why not use Hardware RAID (unless not available) so in
the OS all your dealing with is a single disk setup rather than all this
software RAID complication?
Windows software raid is arse, thats why.
Linux software raid shows you all the gory detail and lets you shoot
yourself quite successfully. Its much more versatile.
As a side note on the Informix list I watch it is repeatedly said not to
use RAID 5 if you can - explanation here:
http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt
Nice - I saw somewhere that the likelyhood of losing a second drive
increases exponentially once one has failed or started erroring.
One way to reduce that risk is to assemble the raid on drives of
different brands/models or different production runs. Then again...
that seagate firmware bug last year affected many models/sizes
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Craig Falconer
