[Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this....

[Brian Waite]

On Sunday 29 April 2007 22:08, Tal Cohen wrote:
> I agree that we were lucky; we did not design the system to run crippled -
> I just thought that it was cool that it did :) Do not get me wrong, I do
> not have anything against Windows...I just really do not think it would
> have died so chivalrously.
>
> I agree with you that the OS should be on the RAID array. This was one of
> the lessons learned from this event.
Make sure you learn the lesson right. You could use  Raid for the OS but not 
the same raid. Personally I am more of a hot spare os drive myself, but if 
you want to use RAID you don't want to be at the mercy of the OS installer 
Ms, Linux, or otherwise to keep your data safe in the case of an upgrade or 
reinstall. 
My philosophy is to keep the OS and data physcailly seperate for ciritical 
data.

Just my 2 cents

Thanks
Brian
>
> Tal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlug-bounces at mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces at mail.wlug.org] On
> Behalf Of John Stoffel
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] I'd like to see Windows do this....
>
>
> Tal> It was just the OS, not the data disk (the data disk is a 3 disk
> Tal> Raid 5 array).
>
> Again, If you've bothered to use RAID on your data, why not on the OS
> as well?  It's not like the OS is all that big space wise, so it's
> cheap to mirror.
>
> And not always will the system (unix or otherwise) fail so nicely.
> You were lucky in my book.  :]
>
> John
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