On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Gary Smith <gary.sm...@holdstead.com> wrote:
>> I've actually seen a scenario where intermittent RAM problems caused mostly
>> hidden differences in the two disk instances of a software raid mirror. It
>> wasn't fun to diagnose and fix since the disk reads would randomly have good
>> and bad data even after the RAM was fixed. I'm sure that is a rare thing,
>> but...
>
> If you're using software/hardware mirror then you're already doing it
> wrong... ;) Unless RIAK has changed the rules they recommended raid 0
> (because by definition RIAK is already redundant).
This wasn't a riak server - just pointing out that bad RAM does
happen, and it can cause strange things. (It was actually a machine
holding backups which could have been even worse if we had happened to
need them).
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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