Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S281306AbRKZBLY>; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:11:24 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S281308AbRKZBLO>; Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:11:14 -0500
Received: from quechua.inka.de ([212.227.14.2]:17212 "EHLO mail.inka.de")
	by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id <S281306AbRKZBLC>;
	Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:11:02 -0500
From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk hardware caching, performance, and journalling
In-Reply-To: <00e001c175fa$90d02b40$6caaa8c0@kevin>
X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel
User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.11-xfs (i686))
Message-Id: <E168AI1-0006i7-00@calista.inka.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:10:29 +0100
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

In article <00e001c175fa$90d02b40$6caaa8c0@kevin> you wrote:
> disk drives... my servers have never (in my memory) experienced a
> catastrophic power failure, because they're too easy to avoid.

Well, even UPS can fail. But battery protected RAID Controllers are a MUST,
anyway.

Greetings
Bernd
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/