On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:37:52 +0100, Alex Butcher wrote: > Either way, it's not > suitable for data I even care a little bit about. Ordinarily I'd agree with you. In this case, however, the data is mostly read-only and on backup media. So I don't really care if the disks fall off the edge of a cliff; the data will survive. I can justify a moderate amount of time working on this, with the hardware I have. I can't really justify buying eight new disks. NB: Please don't dismiss this kind of setup out of hand. I know that disks are cheap enough these days that the typical professional user won't ever need to worry about not being able to replace hardware which behaves like this. However, many people happen to be in a different situation. :-/ -- Matthias Urlichs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
