Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: >On Thursday 15 March 2007 12:32 am, shadowym wrote: > > >>Hard to expect the business community to take Asterisk seriously when this >>sort of stuff happens IMHO. I can't understand how 3 of 4 hard drives >>could just suddenly fail simultaneously. There must be more too it. No >>UPS? Someone spilled their coffee into it? Something! >> >> > >Obviously you didn't read Google's research paper on drive failures. And >aside from that, you're also obviously pushing an agenda with these inciteful >comments. > > There are also hardware raid controller failures to deal with. To make it worse, allowing the wrong person to replace failed drives and controllers can be disastrous. As for backup, they reported that it will be back up and running. That would be hard to do without backup when 3 of 4 drives failed.
Suppose you are running raid5 on 3 drives with a 4th as ready spare? Suppose that overheating is a factor? One of the drives fails and the system begins building the spare in the background. Then the spare fails. Then 1 of the 2 remaining drives fails. Some of us can spec out a fancy new server that comes with a 24/7 fast-response service contract. Then the complainers can donate the money to buy it and put it in a good data center. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
