On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Brian Henning wrote:
<snip>
I didn't think of that straight away, but the easy solution would
be to have
the OS not stored on the array. Separate itty-bitty cheap HD for
the OS.
If it dies, who cares. Reinstall. Uptime is my bottom-most concern;
throughput (on read moreso than write) and data integrity/safety
are top, in
that order.
<snip>
Yeah, but as I said in #1 above, uptime isn't nearly so big a
concern. If
the machine crashes, oops. I don't imagine ever writing "live" to
the array
(meaning any critical write operations, such as writing while
sounds are
being recorded, will be to the workstation, then backed up to the
RAID --
system crashes during write during backup, just copy the file
again), and a
crash during a read would be a nuisance but less of a nuisance than
losing
all the data. It's not like a sudden-death crash is going to
(hopefully) be
any more frequent than the sudden-death itself.
If uptime and performance aren't really a concern, why even bother
with raid?
Just get yourself a good backup solution and use LVM to maximize space.
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