DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Apr 22 13:49:16 UTC 2010


>          I did not know what RAID is for sure. Now I know it is a cheap 
> way to get some redundancy. See the things at
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5
> 
> Very informative and it makes it clear to me that backup which I use is 
> best.
> 

Glad you are so easily impressed. Have you heard of the write hole? You 
seem to imply that your backup runs on RAID5. Are you sure the thing 
does not have any write cache enabled or has battery backed up cache memory?




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