Im not so much concerned about the os not being on a raid system. I am really concerned about my data, music, pictures,docs, etc. I run a minimum os centos 5.9 install anyway so it would take long to reload the os if i had to. -----Original Message----- From: John R Pierce Sent: 3/5/2013 6:45 PM To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions On 3/5/2013 4:27 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > The question is why are you using raid at all? indeed. the primary justification for the "R" in RAID, Redundant, is high availability. having the OS on a non-raid volume completely violates this. RAID is most definitely NOT a substitute for backups. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos