On Friday 04 March 2005 00:30, Matthew Western, IT Support, Lonsdale wrote: > Not a silly thought. > > I've instead of spending x hunderd thousand on brandname ibm servers and > sans, how you could create a RAID array of PCs running IDE hard drives. > If a PC dies just plug in some more and rebuild. If you want to add > more space just add more PCs. :) that would be cool.
Network block device + dm. > Obviously you wouldn't use it still for critical data like databases > etc, but our user directory would be a good candidate. > > -----Original Message----- > [snip] > > > at the moment i'm using rsync twice a day to sync about 2TB amount > > > of data between two hardware raids (both raid5 with 2 hot spare) > > > > > > advantage: if filesystem is corrupt on one raid, the other raid is > > > normaly not affected This is the recipe for high reliability: * RAID5 protects you from hardware failure * backup protects you from human error/kernel bugs One of your RAIDs is effectively a backup. You don't really need to store it on the RAID tho, unless you want to be protected from *simultaneous* hw failure on both machines. Very unlikely. You can keep backup on plain ol' disk. -- vda -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
