[linux-lvm] offtopic but ...

[Benjamin Scott]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, at 9:39am, Steven Lembark wrote:
> The good news is that today's near-term storage hardware (from fiber scsi
> cards down to the disks) will handle anything short of a nuclear blast
> without failing miserably. This leaves "full availability" systems as a
> viable alternative in many cases.

  Hardware failure is not the leading cause of data loss.  User error is.

  All the RAID in the world will not help you if an operator deletes the
wrong file.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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