[volunteergrid2-l] New Member

[Brad Rupp]

On 10/9/2011 3:32 PM, Christoph Langguth wrote:
> One thing I'm wondering about though: Why would you use RAID for the
> provisioning of storage? From what I know, the entire point of using
> tahoe-lafs is distributed (replicated) storage, so local replication
> isn't necessary. In other words: The filesystem itself intrinsically
> supports the "loss" of your local part of storage, so why replicate it
> again?

I use RAID because I am lazy.  The chances of my office and home burning 
down are low.  The chances of a hard drive failing are much higher.  I 
don't want to have to recover everything via Tahoe just because I lose a 
drive.  Tahoe is for the catastrophic failures, which I hope to never 
encounter.

Brad