Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:34:42 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: raid is dangerous but that's secret (was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible) |
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Hi!
> > If it only was this simple. We don't have 'check brakes' (aka > > 'journalling ineffective') warning light. If we had that, I would not > > have problem. > > But we do; comptently designed (and in the cast of software RAID, > competently packaged) RAID subsystems send notifications to the system > administrator when there is a hard drive failure. Some hardware RAID > systems will send a page to the system administrator. A mid-range > Areca card has a separate ethernet port so it can send e-mail to the > administrator, even if the OS is hosed for some reason.
Well, my MMC/uSD cards do not have ethernet ports to remind me that they are unreliable :-(. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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