Again, if clustering can be made to work, with failover, load balancing,or whatever config you want, The failure points
becomejust the boxes, not all the individual parts inside. A lot easier to hot swap too, with good clustering software.
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
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>>I've found that while it's a little harder to hot swap individual disks in
>>linux using sw RAID, the ability to make the raid behave exactly as I want
>>is worth it. Having lost a RAID5 set to a hw controller that simply had
>>the cable to two drives come loose but refused to accept them back into
>>the RAID5 after that without formatting them first, I'm no longer as wild
>>about hw raid controllers as I once was.
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> It seems that RAID controllers seem to be as likely a failure point as
> disk drives.
>