On Sun, 07 May 2006 10:35:44 +0200, PFC said: > > > In the event of physical HD failure, the procedure goes like this: > > Get mail saying a HDD is dead. Replace harddisk, resynchronize RAID. > Use Linux software RAID. Harddrives are cheaper that the time you'll > lose > trying to recover your data.
Remember to take backups *anyhow*. That way, if the RAID controller dumps cow manure on all the sectors, you won't be saying "Oh, SH*T". Also, note that there exist buggy RAID controllers, where if you are doing mirroring to 2 disks, and they develop bad blocks at different locations, you can trash the mirror by resynchronizing (basically, you swap out one of the bad disks, re-sync, it progresses as far as the bad block on the source for the mirror, and dies).
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