[LinuxUsers] Using RAID? Read this ...

[Jeff Lasman]

On Saturday 03 January 2009 12:17 pm, Peter Manis wrote:

> they really should have been using
> something a bit better than RAID1 to start with.

We've been using Linux software RAID 1 for many years and we've only 
once had a system we couldn't restore from RAID (we restored from a 
less than day-old backup on that one) because we didn't properly 
understand the "bug" (I call it a bug) where grub by default doesn't 
setup reboot from second drive in case first drive has failed.  But now 
we set it up correctly, use hot swap, and everything works.

So "what's wrong with RAID1?"

Jeff
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