[aclug-L] Re: Software Raid

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What level RAID were/are you running?


On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:09:07PM -0600, tom@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My advice to anyone thinking about setting up a software raid is don't
> unless you have a very good ups, and the software setup to shutdown your
> machine if there is a power loss.  I have found out that power loss on a
> software raid is bad.  The Drives get out of sync, and you trash the
> partition on top of the raid device.  I have learned this lesson the hard 
> way.  I have lost my drives have become out of sync twice since I have
> had it in running, and this time the info is lost for good.  If I search 
> for a silver lining it would have to be that I have learned how to use
> ext2 recovery tools like debugfs.  
> 
>                                       Thomas Bloom
> 
> 

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