On 2010-04-15 00:48, Stefan Monnier wrote:
If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance here and there (depends on application).I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not human error.And I disagree with that.With the fact that it's not necessarily stupid to not use mirroring?Too many negatives,Looks like the problem indeed: you misunderstood Jon's objection as well. It's the same old problem of people confusing "not (a => b)" as "(not a) => (not b)".
Globbing two relatively separate thoughts into the same sentence in fraught with "danger". It's why I like email instead of IM: the ability to take a moment, think of what I wrote and then rewrite it.
It's also why computer natural language processing has always been so difficult.
-- Dissent is patriotic, remember?