RE: [SLUG] RAID and crash recovery

2000-09-14 Thread Jill Rowling
Sounds awful. Just out of curiosity, did you put copies of the RAID database on multiple physical drives or on only one? - Jill. ___ Jill Rowling Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Aus

Re: [SLUG] RAID and crash recovery

2000-09-14 Thread Doug Stalker
Jill Rowling wrote: > Well, yes, you can just boot from a floppy if the machine has a floppy > drive. > The main thing about RAID 1 is that a hard disk crash whilst the machine is > running does not get noticed by users. I just had a RAID 1 drive fail and lock the system - after rebuilding it

RE: [SLUG] RAID and crash recovery

2000-09-14 Thread Jill Rowling
Well, yes, you can just boot from a floppy if the machine has a floppy drive. The main thing about RAID 1 is that a hard disk crash whilst the machine is running does not get noticed by users. Suppose your system had to run in a remote site full of untrained people. In that case you might want to

[SLUG] RAID and crash recovery

2000-09-14 Thread David Kempe
Hey Sluggers, After sharing the spirit and watching that little gas flame go by and some cool police Harleys, thought I might ask this question that has been buggin me. When using a hardware RAID 1 does it make alot of sense to mirror the /boot partition? I have got all the other partitions mirro