[Lazarus] wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org have problem with mysql

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 03/05/2011 16:00, ik wrote:
> 
> Raid is not a backup, it can still screw everything up. If you have
> invalid buffer content, it will just be copied to all of the other disks.
> For storage you have other types to work with such as NAS and SAN.


True, and why we have off-site backups as well. But a high quality disk
controller [and other hardware too], and file systems with parity
checking built-in (think ZFS, Btrfs etc) goes a long way to prevent
issues as you describe.

As for Florian's issue with the "corrupted file system". I would highly
suggest he investigates why the problem occurred in the first place, so
that it can _truly_ be fixed. The wonderful world of Windows
Administrators have corrupted the minds of so many system admins with
the advice: "reboot and the problem should be fixed". That's the worst
advice ever, and it fixes nothing!

Paul Venezia said it best: "When in doubt, reboot? Not Unix boxes"
http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/when-in-doubt-reboot-not-unix-boxes-061



Regards,
  - Graeme -

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