[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> Bound-volume sets were weird, and rather unique.  And not something I'd 
> prefer to tangle with these days.  Though a Unix file system with mount 
> points can look vaguely familiar.

RAID arrays are even more prone to data loss. They are in fact worse
than bound volume when consifgured to have the 8 bits of each byte
spread amongst multiple physical drives. While the RAID software handles
the failure of a physical drive nicely, your system will lose all the
data when the RAID software itself fails. (I have seen this happen).

If the RAID software fails, it can ruin the config data for the array
and you end up with un-decypherable gibberish on all your physical
drives and need to send all of them to some professional outfit to
rebuild based on bit patterns.

RAID is not the end-all of disk problems and just because you have a
fancy disk array doesn't mean you needn't worry about failure of your
disk array.