drive failure during rebuild causes page fault

[Gianluca]

> If you're thinking of using RAID instead of good timely backups, you need
> to go back to the drawing board, because that is not what RAID is intended
> to replace -- and is something it cannot replace.

actually all the data I plan to keep on that server is gonna be backed
up, either to cdr/dvdr or in the original audio cds that I still have.
what I meant by integrity is trying to avoid having to go back to the
backups to restore 120G (or more in this case) that were on a dead
drive. I've done that before, and even if it's no mission-critical
data, it remains a huge PITA :)

thanks for the detailed explanation of how RAID5 works, somehow I
didn't really catch the distinction between the normal and degraded
operations on the array.

what would be your recommendations for this particular (and very
limited) application?

thanks a lot for your help,

    g.