Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:22:20 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] document flash/RAID dangers |
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On Wed 2009-08-26 00:24:30, Rik van Riel wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >> Look, I don't need full drive failure for this to happen. I can just >> remove one disk from array. I don't need power failure, I can just >> press the power button. I don't even need to rebuild anything, I can >> just write to degraded array. >> >> Given that all events are under my control, statistics make little >> sense here. > > I recommend a sledgehammer. > > If you want to lose your data, you might as well have some fun. > > No need to bore yourself to tears by simulating events that are > unlikely to happen simultaneously to careful system administrators.
Sledgehammer is hardware problem, and I'm demonstrating software/documentation problem we have here. Pavel
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