Re: shadowing (like IB/Firebird) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Garamond
Subject Re: shadowing (like IB/Firebird)
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Msg-id 408F37B1.3010900@zara.6.isreserved.com
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In response to Re: shadowing (like IB/Firebird)  (<wespvp@syntegra.com>)
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wespvp@syntegra.com wrote:
> died it caused corruption elsewhere.  I have also seen (a couple of times) a
> controller go bad and proceed to write garbage all over the disks.  The
> mirroring worked quite well - we had a very nice file system full of
> mirrored garbage.

Does this mean software RAID is actually safer than hardware RAID?
(Since the OS and processor is usually more reliable than a disc
controller).

--
dave


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