[Gllug] NFS problem

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:56 +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2007, John Hearns spake thusly:
> > Sadly, in the era of Tbyte drives, the probability of dual failures
> > during reconstruction of RAID-5 sets is getting significant
> 
> A monthly
> 
> echo check > /sys/block/md{N}/md/sync_action
> 
> is your friend. (But even that won't reduce the probability far enough
> for the paranoid. RAID-6 takes even more drives, of course, and some of
> us don't have the bay space or the money...)

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Raid arrays on fire off
the shoulder of Orion. I watched I-nodes glitter in the dark near the
Tannhauser Gate. All those... bytes will be lost... in time... like...
tears... in rain.
Time... to backup.

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