Cef - Slashdot User

White Label Space want an Aussie flag on the moon 0

Submitted by Dante_J on Tuesday October 12 2010, @01:06AM

Dante_J writes "Reported In a recent news article, of the 22 Google Lunar X-Prize teams, 'White Label Space' are the only one with notable Australian contributions, and is dedicated to becoming a major player in the rapidly expanding sector of private space exploration. Mr Barton said he picked up Lunar Numbat because he was keen to "harness the latent enthusiasm and frustration of Australian people"."

Bastille linux hijacked 0

Submitted by fathertedgrinch on Wednesday September 12 2007, @03:20PM

fathertedgrinch writes "The Bastille-linux project's registration has apparently been hijacked by a cyber-squatter. See http://isc.sans.org/ for information. note that there are two articles there — one describes the discovery, and the second shows the new url for bastille."

Comment: Re:RAID1 (Score 4, Interesting) 177

by Cef on Tuesday August 28 2007, @09:34PM (#20393047) Attached to: Seagate Firmware Performance Differences

I've had disks fail almost all at the same time before.

It's really annoying when the following happens:

- Disk 1 dies in a RAID5 set
- Hot spare (Disk 4) comes online and starts rebuilding
- Disk 2 dies during the rebuild thrashing
- Rebuild never completes
- Put in 2 new disks
- Restore a backup
- Disk 3 fails during restoration, pulling in the hot swap (one of the new disks)
- A year later, the original hot spare (Disk 4) fails, leading to another rebuild

From my own experiences, the main culprit in these sorts of cases tend to be the bearings. Why they have a tendency to go at the same time, I have no idea. Haven't had it happen lately, but I know I'd rather avoid the problem.

Usually though, it's not the make/model/build date that is the issue, but the batch number (especially for the parts rather than the drive). Parts tend to get allocated in batches, so if you get a batch of say.... bearings, that aren't up to snuff, that batch of drives will probably fail earlier, while others (even ones manufactured on the same date) will be fine.