Comments on: How many failed drives can take down a RAID5 array? http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/ Just another FreeBSD Developer's weblog Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ivoras http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 ivoras Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:06:52 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/#comment-1271 Right. Unfortunately in this case the other component in the replication pair would have been on a VMware virtual machine stored on the same array even if we had it :)

Luckily the backups were good and recent.

Anyway I’m hoping the build-in replication will be done in 8.4. Last time I looked at third-party replicators they had problems with schema changes.

]]> By: Edwin Groothuis http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Edwin Groothuis Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:26:17 +0000 http://blogs.freebsdish.org/ivoras/2008/06/13/how-many-drives-can-take-down-raid5/#comment-1269 Replication is what you want if your data is realtime valuable to you:

http://linuxfinances.info/info/slony.html

It’s a pain to setup the first two times, but then it works like a charm.

Edwin

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