So... was the hard drive crash reason a lie?

i agree with most of the replys ive read about hard drives and the data bases its not an easy job , my brother works for a company who has data bases and hes told me when it goes down finding he problem is like a needle in the hay stack takes hrs some times to find out the real cause theres so many componets in the data baseill bet with out really looking in side a data base theres more than one hard drive

I didn't know I was anyones favorite I thought I was a pain in the ass.

i'm special! i'm a favorite already... only took an hour to get on, i must be realllllllllly loved...

I am confused. All these people that are so distraught, so distrustful of LL, why do you stay? Why do you give money to people you don't apparently like or trust? Is it masochism? Is it a vendetta, a desire to smear those who have 'hurt' you so much, ruined your lives because of a couple days of downtime? If it's SO frigging painful for you that it drives you to present irrational questions and general contempt for the developers do us all a favor and just GO AWAY. We won't miss you. We will get along just fine without the conspiracy theories and wound licking.

What will that solve?

when you're running a raid array with a massive mysql database on it, and one of the raid drives craps out, simply replacing the drive does not fix it . first the drive has to be integrated back into the raid array, which can take a few hours, then the database being mysql probably was broke. mysql isn't very failsoft. there are tools for repairing tables but I bet there were also lindens going through the thing manually and making sure tables where working and contained approx the right info.

so ya, no lying involved.

oops, your inventory is gone? hehe, pheonix must have seen the post.

Wow, another stupid statement graces the forum.

We wouldn't have to listen to them repeatedly whine. A big plus in my book.

Heehehehe i saw many of the "favorites" posting here on the forums that they were infact locked out...

So Deklax who pray tell where the favorites that were let in?

Merwan -

I have to admit, it was ME they were letting on! You see, I had router troubles for 3 days around XMas, and couldn't play after signing up.

They took pity on me, so when I WAS able to connect, they took down the whole system so I could explore the world on my own. Unfortunately, they were over-enthusiastic, and knocked me out for a day or two as well. But I still got in for a short bit sometimes when others couldn't.

So I guess the lynching mob of llamas should show up at my door soon. I will face my death with dignity!





............Oops! I accidentally left my SARCASM LOCK on!

Take care,

--Noel "HB" Wade
(Tread Whiplash)

True. Ain't it amazing that I already know how to handle myself better than you do.

lol you all loved that =P my definition of favorites during the crash was the ones that were able to get in, whats yours? I didnt relize there was a registered list i should have been refering to. Usually i would consider the favorites estate owners.

Oh please Devlin...like your statements are always intelligent! ROFL!!!!

They aren't? *Runs and sniffles in the corner.*

> Using RAID5 these days is silly.
>
> It was designed to be less expensive than mirroring a drive and with the low price of drives these days, it just doesnt (usually) make much sense to use RAID5. RAID 1 + 0 is the way to go .. and be sure to use disks from different vendors for your mirrors, or at a minimum disks from different manufacturing batches.

Drives are *expensive*. Sure, you can buy ide drives for not very much, but look at the price of a 15000rpm SCSI Compaq drive, and its really tons, lots, not to be sniffed at.

I was working as a sysadmin in a major investment bank - before I quit to backpack a little - and RAID5 was standard. Prior to that, I was the senior windows engineer on a 500-user site, prior to that, and again we were using RAID5 as standard throughout our servers. In fact, I dont remember seeing anything other than RAID5 used anywhere except in MCSE exam books.

Consider also that the trend in recent years has been migration to NAS/SAN technology. These are massively RAIDed, along the lines of RAID5.

Azelda

It's always easier to choose winning moves in chess while you're not playing.

hmm... I suck at chess even if I'm telling someone else how to play it.

Oh my god, make your signature ONE FREAKING LINE.

lol, but this is so much more fun. We can't all get by with one word.

Oracle isn't much better than mysql either. If you were an Oracle DBA you'd have war stories to match anything mysql puts out.

I sat down with an EQ2 manager the other night and discussed their recent 48 hour nightmare and trust me, they are not running MySQL and yes, it was a pure database problem beset with all sorts of data loss pain.

MySQL is fine. They just need to spread out the pain so if a database gets toasted (cause it will, guaranteed) they will have other boxes in the grid which will take over.

You can't enterprise class your way to reliability. That's a fantasy. All you end up doing is just spending a lot of money spreading out databases and systems across enterprise class machines rather than spreading it out across pc-class machines. Yeah, you exchange fewer hard drives but you still have to do it and so really reliability is pretty much the same.