On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:07:13PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > But I'm still disappointed in the hardware bleed-through affecting > the filesystem. :( I (well, http://stats.distributed.net/) has been bit by this before. One issue with RAID is that it does you no good if you don't get notification that a drive has failed. Even after that, there's still risk of another failure before a sucessful rebuild, and of course something can always go wrong during recovery. In a nutshell, RAID's still no replacement for backups. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
