From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Cousins Subject: Re: Changing chunk size Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:49:43 -0500 Message-ID: <45D5FCC7.7000503@maine.edu> References: <45D4955C.60008@tmr.com> <17876.60347.983953.748979@notabene.brown> <45D5E05E.4000706@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45D5E05E.4000706@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Bill Davidsen wrote: > > I'm sure "slow" is a relative term, compared to backing up TBs of data > and trying to restore them. Not to mention the lack of inexpensive TB > size backup media. That's totally unavailable at the moment, I'll live > with what I have, thanks. You don't backup your RAID arrays? Yikes! For certain data this would be fine (data that you can recreate easily) but it sounds like this isn't the case for you otherwise you'd just wipe the array and recreate the data. There are other modes of failure than just the drives themselves (file system corruption for instance) so it is wise to do backups, even on "redundant" systems. Good luck, Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302