Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > I'm afraid that's too OT (since linux supports pretty much all drives > ;-), so here is a related question: what measures (short of RAID) > could I use to reduce the risk of disk errors? I'm starting to be > annoyed by them, every time it takes long to recover and then not > always all is recovered... Are some filesystems (reiser?) less > fragile than others?
No. They all are pretty fragile. Though the journaling FS are less likely to fail due to system crashes, etc. The only system that will survive a single disk crash is raid 5. You set up a raid array with 4 drives, it places checksums on one and data on 3. This can be done with any standard PC if you are willing to fogo a CD-ROM. What we did is install a scsi controler and hard drive for the system and put the critical data on the raid array. During instalation we had a CD-ROM on the IDE interface. Once the system was installed we pulled the CD-ROM and installed 4 IDE drives, making them a RAID array. Just a comment on backup. We use an HP-ultrium LTO drive and changer. With HP Data Protector software (requires a UNIX host) with the tape drive on a linux machine and can backup 500gb in 24 hours. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd, R.M.P.E House, 10 Hartom St. Har Hotzvim Jerusalem, 91450 Israel Tel: +972-2-5417-356 Cell: +972-55-667-090 Do sysadmins count networked sheep? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
