On Friday 30 Nov 2001 16:33, Jason Burfield wrote:
First of all, the idea of data loss because one disk has gone bad on RAID-5
is not possible. RAID-5 specifically allows you to loose up to 1 disk at any
one time, and stay active.
The reason why RAID-5 is not recommended for MySQL is speed. RA
David,
I currently run a system with Raid 5. I have had one disk drop, however,
no data was lost. That is one of the beauties of RAID 5, you have a
spare disk that takes over.
I too had heard originally that running MySQL on a RAID 5 was a bad idea
(this, after I already had it running...), howe
