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From: Ron Johnson on 15 Apr 2010 02:30
On 2010-04-15 00:48, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>>>> If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
>>>>>> mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
>>>>>> here and there (depends on application).
>>>>> I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
>>>>> human error.
>>>> And I disagree with that.
>>> With the fact that it's not necessarily stupid to not use mirroring?
>> Too many negatives,
>
> Looks like the problem indeed: you misunderstood Jon's objection
> as well. It's the same old problem of people confusing "not (a => b)" as
> "(not a) => (not b)".
>

Globbing two relatively separate thoughts into the same sentence in
fraught with "danger". It's why I like email instead of IM: the
ability to take a moment, think of what I wrote and then rewrite it.

It's also why computer natural language processing has always been
so difficult.

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From: Jon Dowland on 16 Apr 2010 06:20
On 14/04/10 Ron Johnson wrote:
> That is correct. No RAID protects against user stupidity.

In my personal experience, user stupidity (even my own) is as common a
cause of data loss as hardware failure.


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