Scott Burns said: > Dan Goodes wrote: > >>Just to clarify here, we (PlanetMirror) lost a number of disks in a raid >>array, and are working on restoring service. As you noted, this means >> that >>RH and Fedora are missing, among others (albeit temporarily, but I don't >>have an ETA at this stage). >> >> >> > Still offtopic, but I read the informix newsgroup, and there is a > resident who posts regularly on the evils of RAID5 - mainly that no > matter how many disks you have, if two disks die, the second before the > recovery of the first is complete, you lose everything. I'm just > curious to see if you used RAID5? Of course if both disks of a mirror set die you lose everything, too. -- William Hooper
