On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 17:24 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ian Forde wrote: > > Might not be a bad idea to see how they're able to use > > mdadm to detect and autosync drives. I don't *ever* want to go through > > something like: > > > > http://kev.coolcavemen.com/2008/07/heroic-journey-to-raid-5-data-recovery/ > > > > Not when a little planning can help me skip it... ;) > > If you are really concerned about data recovery and can chunk up your > filesystem mount points so things fit on a single disk (usually not too > hard with 1 or 1.5 TB drives available now) just use software raid1 > since you can simply mount any single disk from it and access the files. > It becomes much more difficult with other raid levels or multi-disk lvm. My point is that at home, I'd rather do network mounts to a fileserver utilizing HW RAID. At work, I'd rather use HW RAID with hot-swap disks. This way, there's are no hoops to go through. Time is a more important resource to me... SW RAID is a path that I went down well over a decade ago in Solaris (DiskSuite and Veritas VM), followed by Linux mdadm. If you've ever had to do a Veritas encapsulated boot disk recovery, you'll know why I'd rather never go down that road *ever again*... ;) -I -I