From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: PFC Subject: Re: bad bread Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 10:35:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20060505062801.402beb50.boricua@despiertapr.com> <20060507005618.GA21557@rvalles.homedns.org.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20060507005618.GA21557@rvalles.homedns.org.> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; delsp="yes"; charset="us-ascii" To: rvalles , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Cc: boricua@despiertapr.com > In the event of physical HD failure, the procedure goes like this: Get mail saying a HDD is dead. Replace harddisk, resynchronize RAID. Use Linux software RAID. Harddrives are cheaper that the time you'll lose trying to recover your data. I have reiserfs on RAID1 on my PC ; the kernel can distribute random reads to both disks, so it is faster and more responsive.