On Mar 8, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
The absolute definiton of safe here is quite important. In the event of a power loss, and a failure of the UPS, quite possibly also followed by a failure of the RAID battery you'll get data loss, as some writes won't be committed to disk despite the client thinking they are.
Don't forget about kernel panics and the accidentally pulled the plugs...
-Ross