From: "Majed B." <majedb@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Direct disk access on IBM Server
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:05:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=CLD=Cd0Ngj1hXqQtz3Cb6ir4yRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iop4s2$cjp$1@dough.gmane.org>
Hello,
I've setup a bunch of software RAID boxes and I've had my main one
running at a friend's place with about 16 disks and 9TB of data.
One time 2 disks had bad sectors and things took a bad turn. It was a
RAID5 array, so I had to salvage everything I could rather than losing
everything we had there (no backups). It took me about 3 weeks of
working daily for about 6 hours a day in cloning disks, recovering
files and validating checksums. It was not fun at all.
If you have critical data, I'd suggest you add a battery and an
sd-card/flash card to your hardware RAID array. At least if the power
goes off, whatever is in the cache will be written to the card and
later on to the disks when power is restored.
A UPS will not help you if your power supply decides to commit seppuku.
If you keep daily backups, or any form of backups, go ahead with
software RAID and keep yourself free from vendor lock.
Regards,
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> On 21/04/11 08:24, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> David Brown put forth on 4/20/2011 7:21 AM:
>>
>>> It's true that boot loaders and software raid can be an awkward
>>> combination.
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> Yes, it's a few extra steps.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-23 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 13:21 Direct disk access on IBM Server David Brown
2011-04-19 13:25 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-19 14:04 ` David Brown
2011-04-19 14:07 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-19 15:12 ` David Brown
2011-04-19 15:41 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-20 8:08 ` David Brown
2011-04-19 20:08 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-04-20 11:24 ` David Brown
2011-04-20 11:40 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-04-20 12:21 ` David Brown
2011-04-21 6:24 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-04-21 11:36 ` David Brown
2011-04-23 14:05 ` Majed B. [this message]
2011-04-23 14:42 ` David Brown
2011-04-24 12:48 ` Drew
2011-04-24 20:00 ` David Brown
2011-04-24 20:25 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2011-04-25 9:42 ` David Brown
2011-04-21 3:50 ` Ryan Wagoner
2011-04-21 11:00 ` David Brown
2011-04-21 4:10 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-04-21 11:19 ` David Brown
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