[X Servers] XServe RAID 1 (mirroring)

[Dave Lee]

You don't actually need 5 disks for RAID5 compliance, just 3.
Dave
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 03:44  pm, Peter C.S. Adams wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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