Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I guess I will watch it closely for now and if it trips up again failover to the drbd peer and see what happens there. I suppose I could even deattach the local disks and have it run using the peer over the wire. That should eliminate the local I/O subsystem. >>It's kind of scary there is no end-to-end parity implemented >>somewhere along the whole data path to prevent this. It sort of >>defeats the point of RAID 6 and ECC. > >I agree, it's pretty damn scary. You can read about the story and >the ensuing discussion here: I wonder if drbd could help out with that. >Interesting. I hadn't heard of such a thing until I just looked it >up. But in any case that adds yet another variable (and a fairly >uncommon one) to the mix. > It's this one: http://www.acnc.com/02_01_jetstor_sata_416s.html. I thought units like it are very popular. -- Maurice Volaski, mvolaski at aecom.yu.edu Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University