[geeks] Murphy, instantiated

[Phil Stracchino]

A RAIDZ2 pool without hot spares can survive simultaneous failure of up
to two devices and still continue operating in degraded mode.

So, naturally, between when we left for the elementary school this
morning at 0755 and when we got back home at about 1015, apparently
*THREE* of the twelve disks in babylon4's main storage pool failed.


(That's what I get for trusting Maxtor disks.  But they were free-to-me,
so I can't complain too loudly.  Unfortunately, I have no spares, and
can't spare the money right now to replace them with better.  Equally
annoyingly, I hadn't gotten backup migration from disk to tape set up
yet.  I'm more annoyed at the configuration work - principally Apache2 -
that I'll now have to redo than the little data that I've lost, which
principally consists of a dozen or so ISOs that I can re-download any
time I want to.)



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