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We all learn now And I thank you - My experience with mirroring is I admit to high end servers where you physically had to disengage the dud drive...but thats a log time ago.<BR>
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Thanks very much. I might configure my server as such when I upgrade to new software soon.<BR>
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Merry Christmas<BR>
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Scott<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 00:12 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tuesday 05 December 2006 00:02, Scott Couston - Registration Account wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Using RAID 1 is a good idea, however you need to be comfortable in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> creating it. If you are using SuSe the Yast partition tool will make</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> life a lot easier, however there is much to take into account</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> in mirroring a partition that needs to be researched so that when the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> first HDD fails you will not have too much trouble utilising its mirror.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> RAID 1 is easy to create, however in the event you need to use the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> mirror partition solely comes the time for knowing exactly what to do.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">No, Scott, that is not much of a problem. Even using software</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">raid, if one drive dies, the raid just fails the drive, and boots it out</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and continues to run on the one remaining drive.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Its so smooth, you run the risk of missing the failure entirely.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">When you add the new replacement drive, the raid just rebuilds</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the array automatically.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I don't think any of the hardware raid controllers offer much</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">unless you are talking big enterprise level servers. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Software raid under linux is so reliable, and servers are </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">usually so un-loaded (cpu utilization hovering around 3%)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that the cost for the controller is better spent on ram.</FONT>
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