[CentOS] Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions

Wed Mar 6 01:58:35 UTC 2013

Im in the process of configuring my data to be backed up to external devices.

-----Original Message-----
From: John R Pierce
Sent: 3/5/2013 6:45 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] 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

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