Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hardware raid is fine, but software raid has it's limitations in this > space. > > If you can ensure that there will be no failures (in which case, you > wouldn't be using raid5), and that the devices are always in the same > order, etc -then go ahead. > > If you have one machine that has a failure on a drive, only this > machine will do the appropriate thing - leaving the others with a view > of the device that is inconsistent with that of the machine on which > the failure took place. This is the fundamental problem. Doh! I was only thinking of the common case. Thanks. -- Ed L Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
