[THIN] Re: What is the optimal RAID configuration

  • From: Andreas Wohlfeld <agw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:28:16 +0200

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Chris Lynch wrote:
> have an external drive rack).  But, keep this in mind.  If your drive
> does go down, and you have a HOT Spare configured, and the drive that
> goes down is the primary drive in the array, your users will not be able
> to work because the array is currently being re-built.  They will get a
> lot of drive read errors, and apps will not launch.  Eventhough the OS
> is responsive (ie. They can log in), apps won't run until the array is
> finished rebuilding.  I can tell you we have had issues like this in the
> past, but then again the servers were the HP LP1000r.  Such a POS!!!
> 
Never heard of such crap RAID software. With first class raid
controllers as from vortex you don't even notice as a user, except the
performance loss.

-- 
  Andreas Wohlfeld -- Germany
    agw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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