Re: Quick question on Software RAID support.

[Thomas Schenk <tschenk@origin.ea.com>]

On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 19:34, Mukund Ingle wrote:
> 
> 1) Does the Software RAID-5 support automatic detection
>      of a drive failure? How?
> 
> 2) Has Linux Software RAID-5 been used in the Enterprise environment
>      to support redundancy by any real-world networking company
>      or this is just a tool used by individuals to provide redundancy on
>      their own PCs in the labs and at home?

I don't know if this qualifies as "in the Enterprise environment to
support redundancy by any real-world networking company", but when I
worked at Deja.com (aka Dejanews), we used software RAID on production
servers (database hosts mostly) and it worked fine.  The only problems
we ever had with it were due to human error (running fsck on individual
drives in the arrays).

Tom S.
 
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