On Friday 30 Nov 2001 16:33, Jason Burfield wrote:
First of all, the idea of data loss because one disk has gone bad on RAID-5
is not possible. RAID-5 specifically allows you to loose up to 1 disk at any
one time, and stay active.
The reason why RAID-5 is not recommended for MySQL is speed. RA
David,
I currently run a system with Raid 5. I have had one disk drop, however,
no data was lost. That is one of the beauties of RAID 5, you have a
spare disk that takes over.
I too had heard originally that running MySQL on a RAID 5 was a bad idea
(this, after I already had it running...), howe
Just one quick question... I've heard that running a database in a
system using RAID isn't a good idea on RAID 5, but works fine with
mirroring (0, 0/1, 0/5). Does anyone out there have experience with
MySQL on RAID 5, or know how MySQL performs in a RAID 5 environment? My
concern is loss o
