[luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux)

[Brian Low]

With a RAID1 it is mirrored.  This means that if you write a file to 1 drive, it will be added to the other.  This will protect your system from going down.  If 1 drive fails, the other drive is working.  This also means that if a file is downloaded and is virused, it still will affect your system :)

Brian

> <What would be the point of doing a RAID with 1 drive :)  You get 0
> redundency.>
> 
> True, in theory.  But suppose you are working on a 1,000 page leagl "brief",
> then all of a sudden you hid a bad sector in your hard drive which causes your
> document to become corrupted?
> 
> A new question.  Will the same-drive RAID help in a virus infested situation?  
> For example, suppose I downloaded a Microsoft Word .doc file which contains
> a macro virus.  Will this Microsoft virus do the same damages on the redundent
> partition?
> 
> 
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