TuxRunner

So I blew up my main Linux server at home over the weekend apparently.  You’d think that with me being a systems engineer and all that I’d know better (I do).  I have an old Compaq server with two drives in it.  They’re small drives so I had setup both as a stripe (RAID0).

Advantage: faster, more drivespace available
Disadvantage: if you lose one drive, you lose everything.

Heh, guess what happened?

Well I pulled it out, did the old Nintendo trick (you know, blow on the cartridge, and then stick it back in), and tried the drive.  Seems to be working fine now, but I decided to wipe out the install and rebuild it anyway.  This time as a RAID1 configuration (mirrored drives).  Now if one fails, I’m still ok.  Just don’t have as much drivespace to work with.  Live and learn (or don’t).