best practices using LVM and e2fsck

[Richard Pieri]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> A typical MTBF for hard drives might be 25,000 hours, which sounds very good
> ... one undetected bit error in 3 years ...  Until you start running raid.
> If you've got a modest raid set, let's say 10 disks, now your MTBF overall
> is 2,500 hours, or one undetected bit error every 3-4 months.  

RAID is not, never has been, and never will be, about data integrity.

--Rich P.