Re: The Small Company's Guide to Hard Drive Failure and Linux

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

Derek Vadala wrote:

> On the other hand, SW RAID-1 is fast on Linux and if one side of your
> mirror dies, you can bring up the remaining disks as a standalone device
> (sans RAID)-- just mount the partitions normally. Presumably you aren't
> worried about system bus saturation in this case, which I suspect 99/100
> people are not.
>
>  

Ok, this is what I don't get - if you're using Software RAID on Linux, 
then what do you do when your boot drive dies? I'm looking for hardware 
RAID because I like the idea of a quick hotswap. I don't see how you 
could do that with software.

-dave


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