<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Andrew, yeah, I agree top posting in the pain in the ass<br><br>but doesn't that just lead on to the wider argument , that communicating<br>on a mailing list, is well not initutive, and a bit hard for new users to get<br>to grip with...<br><br>well , you can't beat barriers to entry can you? keeps the mortals out ,<br>and the elite tech gods chatting between themselves..<br><br>I'm off to get a sun tan.<br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 19/6/09, Andrew Clayton <i><andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] ELF yourself encryption<br>To: dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 7:19 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:16:42 +0000 (GMT), Lee
Hughes wrote:<br><br>> with software raid 1, I guess data loss during power fail would be no<br>> more serious then just pulling the plug on a normal non-raided disk.<br>> <br>> a raid controller is just more stuff to go wrong in my opinion, when <br>> servers were single core affairs, the offloading raid function to a<br>> piece of hardware made sense. The less hardware you have in a box the<br>> better, perfect design is not when you can add stuff, it's when you<br>> can't take anything more away.<br><br>Please don't top post.<br><br><br>Well, when dealing with more than a few disks your going to need some<br>sort of extra IO controllers. We're not talking bedroom set up's here.<br><br>Ok, well I'll leave you to figure out how to attach 48 disks to your<br>PC and get decent performance.<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br><a
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