[Discuss] Striping is bad

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Just a couple of opinions from the peanut gallery. First, striping has
the risk that a single failing drive can bring down the entire
stripe-set. But, striping is a way to expand an existing volume.
Striping with no redundancy is asking for trouble. By redundancy, I mean
either redundancy by using things like RAID10, or even by doing regular
backups.

The bottom line (IMHO) is that striping is not bad per se, but you need
to understand the issues and ask the questions before you implement.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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