Matthias Šubik wrote:
> On 23.06.2006, at 12:51, Morten Nilsen wrote:
>> Now, I myself have never really used RAID much, mostly because I find
>> RAID-0/1 largely useless.
> I disagree, I install all machines in RAID-1 for boot/root

Well, yes.. but who *really* cares about something as trivial as that
stuff? the stuff that actually matters is *data* not system.. :P

As I only need to spend 15-30 minutes installing TSL from scratch (using
PXE) I don't see much point in complicating the system with RAID for root..

As a matter of fact, I have only once experienced a system death due to
the root disk permanently failing.. and that was a deathstar disk.

(I habitually replace disks as they get old, typically 2-4 years)

>> I would use RAID-5 however, if I were to build
>> a new file server using todays large disks where backups are  
>> cumbersome,
>> whilst the loss of data from a single failure would be enormous.
> 
> raid6 anyone??

sure, if the data is super sensitive, the additional protection of
RAID-6 is good, but for most applications (especially personal use, such
as mine) it is merely overkill.

-- 
Morten
:wq
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