Re: Really scary problem
- From: Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:46 GMT
"Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"philo" <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You did not tell us the RAID level...5 I'm guessing?
Yes, RAID 5. Why would that matter? The corruption is at the file
system layer, not the drive layer.
Anyway I have never felt comfortable with expanding RAID "on the fly"
whether it's supported or not.
I'm not particularly comfortable with it, either. If I had a choice I
would avoid it.
I'd backup and reconstruct etc
Backup to what? 500 DVDs? A couple of million floppies? In case you
hadn't noticed, they don't make 5TB tape drives, and I couldn't afford one
if they did. It is an unfortunate but inevitable result of the blossoming
of giant hard drives and multi-terrabyte arrays that the only vialable
backup solution for a huge drive array is another huge drive array. It is
also unfortunate but nonetheles true that I had to save for quite some
months to be able to afford a 6 x 1TB drive array. It will be a very long
time before I can afford another.
Then be prepared to lose all your data. If that is OK then fine, if not,
they get some backup solution.
.
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