> > Would you use MD at all, taking in account the disks come from the > > same batch and all? I hear these things about MD/RAID being pointless > > when you use disks from the same brand/type/batch since they most > > likely will break shortly after each other. > > Well, for values of "shortly" in months in most cases. These are > consumer goods, I would not expect units with consecutive serial numbers > to fail separated by such a short time that you can't do a backup and/or
I've had them fail within days when using almost identical serial numbers. Nowdays I just mix disk vendors on each array. End of problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
