[geeks] Murphy, instantiated

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
wrote:

> 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.

Sounds like you didn't have a choice, but I like to source my drives  
from multiple sources, hoping to get drives from different lots,  
hoping to avoid just this kind of problem (of course there is no  
guarantee to avoid problems, but diversity might reduce tv likelyhood  
of a triple-drive failure inside of 3 hours!).

>
> (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.)

Glad it's not too bad...

Lionel