| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>, Ernest E Vogelsinger <ernest(at)vogelsinger(dot)at>, shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux supports hot-swappable hardware? [was Re: |
| Date: | 2003-06-18 16:52:33 |
| Message-ID: | 200306181652.h5IGqX911007@candle.pha.pa.us |
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scott.marlowe wrote:
> I've found that while it's a little harder to hot swap individual disks in
> linux using sw RAID, the ability to make the raid behave exactly as I want
> is worth it. Having lost a RAID5 set to a hw controller that simply had
> the cable to two drives come loose but refused to accept them back into
> the RAID5 after that without formatting them first, I'm no longer as wild
> about hw raid controllers as I once was.
It seems that RAID controllers seem to be as likely a failure point as
disk drives.
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