Server will be down for a short time today.

Due to a HDD error (bad sectors), the hosts have decided to replace the HDD and put in a new RAID configuration.

This means the server will be down for a little while today. How long, I'm not sure.
This is also why there was some sporadic downtime in the past few days.

Odd, having bad sectors without killing any content...
Anyway, duly noted. Thanks

(Let it not be said Req no longer cares for his flock )

hehe..

for those asking "how long?", i really dont know.

depends how long it takes to replace & mirror an 80GB drive with about 40GB of data on it.

how about just let us know when its done

RAID sounds fast.

Actually, RAID can be slower depending on the configuration. There are two primary RAID configurations. One is Mirror and the other is Stripe.

Essentially you put two hard drives in a system. In a Mirror, you have two drives of the same size (80GB in this case), but the computer tells you that there is only one 80GB drive, because the other is a basically a real-time backup. Anything written to one drive, is written to another.

This type of setup is used so that if the primary drive mechanically fails from something, then they can just clone the second drive to a new 80GB drive, and you're up within an hour or so. This type of setup actually slows your computer down.

Striping is where the computer still says it only has one drive, but it's double the size (in this case, 160GB). The computer then writes half the data to one drive and half to the other. If you put your drives on two seperate IDE channels (two different ribbons, instead of the same one), this setup can make your computer go faster, but if it crashes, only half of your data is safe.

Hell of a first post trinten...

And to stay on topic, Great job Req

this is a it off topic but req if u get a chance, some1 said that u need art/visuals for troops and or buildings, i may be able to help out if u tell me whatu r looking for

Just make sure you draw 'em yourself...
Goes without saying hopefully, but th elast thing we (and Req ) need is a lawsuit for nicking graphics

Hello all,

I have not been able to get in all day, im wondering if the server is still down. Unfortunately my opponent has been able to get in. I mean, I can't open my maps. I don't know, just tell me if any of you are having the same problem.

Thank You.

We're working on it. Req is dealing with it as we speak

ya me also have this problem where i cannot enter into the map

I'm having the map problems as well.

im getting cheap shoted as we speak my map will not open

Actually, you need to Mirror to be safe.

If you STRIPE only, if one drive crashes, you lose Everything!
Thats why a simple 2 or 3 disk stripe is very dangerous. Because it splits all data across the disks, if one disk dies, you lose everything. But it is MUCH faster.

So you can use the combination version of RAID (5 or 0, i cant remember), which is a mix of both. Parity Stripping i think its called. 3 or 4 disks minimum, and its saves extra data on each disk so that if any 1 disk fails, you can just replace it and the other disks copy that extra data back to rebuild it.

However, I believe the hosts only used a simple 2 disk mirror. A bit slower on performance, but I doubt we'd notice it since files are so small.

hey cydxxx of course id darw em myslef im asking for guides u want me to follow, like what class u need for and what do u have in mind

:] :q :| :[ :\

sorry, just a test of the emergency face system. I repeat, this is just a test

so how much longer will this down time take?

Is raid 5! is mirror stripping with redundancy.
Basically uses a type of XOR logic on the redundancy disk.
It uses a little more disk space for the same data, but it is fast, reliable, and is either hot-swappable drives, or shut down, remove, replace, and turn back on, the new drive will be "regenerated" with a little system degradation, but your back up rather fast.

mirror is RAID 0
stripe is RAID 1
strie with parity bit is RAID 5

mirror is slow , stripe is fast but no redundancy , raid 5 is slight faster then mirror but still not that fast , the fastest configuration should be a 0+1 , stripe 2 set of disk then mirror them together , total 6 disk.