[X Servers] XServe RAID 1 (mirroring)

[Peter C.S. Adams]

Thus spake Peter Clarke <P.J.Clarke at westminster.ac.uk>, circa 7/1/2003:
> You want to replace the faulty disk and re-raid.
> The server has to be taken off-line,
> The replacement disk fitted.
> The server booted from ANOTHER disk
> (either firewire or CD)  (During the re-raiding process)
> - You can't run off the second disk 'during re-raiding'
> The new disk formatted, re-raided
> - that sync process could take some time - up to two hours

WHAT?? That's awful! And primitive -- I had an old PowerMac 7200 with
AppleShare 4 that could re-sync RAID volumes in the background. What is
Apple thinking (or not)??

> As you know, the Xserve supports four disks,

Only 4?? And no RAID 5? They desperately need to fix this if they want to be
taken seriously in the server world.