On 01/23/2013 10:41 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 23/01/2013 16:09, Cousin Ricky a écrit :
>> for Linux is most emphatically that RAID must not be used as a primary
>> backup system.
>
> If you expect RAID to cover failure, you would be in for deception.

/generally/ speaking that would be false, but yep I agree with you on 
this, as I've seen failures involving two different mechanisms and 
recovery was problematic ... worst case scenario who be a failure that 
also involved loss of the parity compressed data. In a /perfect/ world 
RAID5 is a valid option.

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