Drive mirroring - opinion wanted

[warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org (Derek Atkins)]

John Abreau <abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> RAID-5 is inherently fragile, and we were using a hardware RAID
> that didn't have proper monitoring tools available for Linux.
>
> Mirroring is more robust than RAID-5.  Either way, it's imperative that
> you set up an automated mechanism to monitor it so you're alerted
> in a timely fashion when there's a problem that needs attention.

Modern linux systems come with smartd that will email you as soon as it
notices a drive issue.

-derek

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org                        PGP key available