RE: hot swap of failed drive is scheduled; RAID 5 protection on disk drives;

Lukas, your comment is eerily similar to what our Windows and Linux
network administrator said this morning! Our admin pooh-poohed our
System i again, saying that all servers have been using RAID5 for years
with hot-swap capability, and WHY is our junky System i disk drive
failing in the first place!! He makes comments like that just to get my
dander up. But he has not yet recommended a Linux-based ERP system, so
I believe we will continue running JD Edwards World on the System i
until he comes up with something better!

I know i'll piss some more people of with this comment, but what's so
interesting about this?

Since i've been working in IT (around 8 years), we've had hot swap
disks - a few years back they were optional, but nowadays even the
cheapest servers have hot swap drives. It's nothing new, it's nothing
interesting, and it has worked solidly on every platform i've worked
with in the past few years.

Heck, even hot-swapping SATA disks using Linux MD works fine - which
is a nasty hack.