Nice looking 'disk array'

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 29 23:35:09 UTC 2007


On 29-Jan-07, at 6:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:10:08PM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> So what happens in software raid when someone pulls the plug on the
>> machine ???
>
> Anything still in system ram is lost.

Anything half written to disk is gone, and possibly the rest of your  
disk, this is what ext3 and other journalling filesystems are for.

But they can still be corrupted.

Dave


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