[TriLUG] software raid failures?

Shawn Hood shawnlhood at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 15:20:07 EST 2009


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The device mapper mailing list may also be a good place to ask this question.

Shawn

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org> wrote:
> Anybody here ever lost data because of a problem with Linux software
> raid? If so, please describe the circumstances. Now, of course you had
> separate, off-site backups, so you probably only lost a day's worth of
> data when this happened, but...
>
> I have two people who are software raid skeptics and need convincing.
> An official-looking document that basically says, "This is why you
> won't lose data due to a kernel panic or drive failure or..." would be
> great.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Cristóbal M. Palmer
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> small acts are insufficient."
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