[asterisk-users] While the VoIP-Info.org site is down...

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com>:

>
> 75% failure at EXACTLY the same time?  Come on!  We all know better than
> that.
>
> Probably lost one drive at a time over weeks or months with no automated
> warnings!
>
> Amateur hour!

a power supply or backplane problem could easily physically damage the entire
array.

a bus or controller problem could also destroy the data on all drives 
making it
equally useless.

Unless you were there, cut the guy some slack since you don't know the 
details.




>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick May [mailto:patrick at pmmay.sytes.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:10 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] While the VoIP-Info.org site is down...
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Matt wrote:
>> Yikes.. you'd think a server would be running RAID.
>>
>> At any rate.. Please feel free to visit http://www.voip-wiki.us
>>
>> I have set this up to be able to hold information for the Asterisk
>> community.  I will also gladly allow others to mirror it.
>>
>> It is sitting in a climate controlled data center in Central PA on a
>> server with RAID.  Additionally, it is at the end of
>> 95Megabytes/second on a BGP redundant connection.
>>
>> Please feel free to use it, if the community feels it can be useful...
>> additionally, I would love to setup some rsync mirrors with others so
>> that we can have redundant backups of this very valuable information.
>
> The previous message to the list was they lost 3 of 4 drives in the array.
> I'm not sure of any RAID that can sustain 75% hardware loss and still
> function.
>
> Patrick
>
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Jon Pounder

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