=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jakob_=D8stergaard?= (jakob@ostenfeld.dk) writes:
> I'm just setting up such a box. With two IDE disks, and software RAID-1. I can
> remove any disk and it will still boot as if nothing happened. When bad blocks
> are detected, the RAID layer kicks the disk/partition in question, and the
> system keeps going. I've seen this work in Real Life before. Sure you need to
> plan 15 minutes of downtime at some point in the future to replace a failed
> disk, but you can actually _plan_ it.
I don't that sort of luxury. The hardware's already out in the field. I have
to make do with what I have. If I go back and tell my client that, yes, if
we have a single-bit failure on a disk sector, our only alternative is to go
to two drives on the card and do software RAID, I'll be fired (and rightly so)
for incompetence.
Such "perfect world solutions" simply don't exist sometimes in the real world.
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