Sorry for the delayed reply.. the list marked my reply as spam ! ;) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:48:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Seth Northrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wouter de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RAID advice :> > Let's say your OS crashes (Linux...bad libraries for example, that are > not resolvable, for example :>), then you'll have to format all your disks > including your \ > data to replace the OS. I'm missing the link here between OS crashing and having to reinitalize and rebuild the RAID array. Ultimately, you want to avoid single points of failure. Having the OS on a none redundant disk seems like a pretty big one. If that disk goes bad (a much higher probability than linux crashing and destroying your disks in a flaming explosion) then your database is down. If it's on the RAID array then you swap a new disk in and have zero downtime (assuming you can hot swap). You could certainly keep your / partition seperate.. this is generally a good idea anyways; but, I see no advantage to keeping the OS off the RAID array. --- Seth Northrop Manager of Information Technology Reflectivity, Inc. 3910 Freedom Circle, Suite 103 Santa Clara, CA 95054 voice: 408-970-8881 x147 fax: 408-970-8840 http://www.reflectivity.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
