[plug] ext3

[Mark Nold]

Whilst an off site backup is good, i can't not recommend RAID for any system
of any importance (from your MP3 collection to corporate data)

I have lost several IDE hard disks in the last year and i really praise the
boxes with RAID which i would have hardly noticed someting was wrong. (Oh
and make sure if you have two disk they are on different controllers). These
disk were from 3 months old to three years.

Hard disks fail. Hard disks fail days, months weeks after you backup. Hard
disks fail at the wrong time.

Use RAID, be happy.




The computer is your friend.

Right-U-Are 5




-----Original Message-----
From: David White [mailto:tadewhite at optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 9:43 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] ext3


I now have a raid system for joining. it works better for me.

Tim
At 22:58 06/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 March 2002 21:29, David White wrote:
> > >>also what is RAID?
> > >
> > >raid is several things, it involves linking up several hard drives to
> work
> > >as one
> > >as far as i know it can either mirror all the data accross hard drives
> for
> > >backup or combine all hard drives to create one really big drive
> > >
> > >there are hardware and software based RAID solutions
> > >
> > >
> > >this is just basic...
> > How do i change to raid?
>
>Unless you want high reliability it's probably not worth the bother. I had
a
>raid system for a while (RAID-1, aka mirroring).  It was all fun and games
>but the novelty wore off after a while. My recommendation is to keep good
>off-site backups instead.
>
>If you want to join two drives the best thing to do is just mount different
>directories on different drives. This has some draw backs but that's what I
>recommend.
>
>Anthony