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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 10:55:52 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Borg Issue
From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
Cc: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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I don't think Dell makes raid utils for FreeBSD, but i'll look. 
Controlled downtime is better than uncontrolled imo, and of course no down
time is better.  :)

Gavin

>> I'm at the data center and noticed the error light is
>> blinking on the 2nd drive in the RAID array.  I should
>> probably take it down and run the raid tool to see what's up
>> with it.  Just wanted to get a quick response as to what the
>> implications of doing so are.
>
> Uh, you can do that without taking it offline, right?
>
> If it goes offline, we lose wwwmaster.postgresql.org. Which pretty much
> means that anybody hitting download links on our website will get a
> timeout until it's back up.
>
> //Magnus
>