> Hey Seth,
>
> Sorry to hear about your drive failures. To me, this is something that
> most people ignore about RAID5: Lose more than one drive and everything is
> toast. Good reason to have a drive setup as a hot spare, not to mention an
> extra drive laying on the shelf. And hold your breathe while the array is
> rebuilding.
>
it actually will probably be ok in the long run.
we had GOOD backups.
it took us less than 6hours to bring the whole thing backup (including
rebuilding the machine, restoring from tape and eating dinner)
so I feel good about our ability to recover from a disaster.
and I'm not afraid of the WORST anymore with raid5.
the logs screamed holy hell so I knew what was RIGHT away.
so all in all I'm glad we're through it.
though a hot spare is in the plans for the next iteration of this array :)
-sv
