[Samba] samba failover plan on unix OS using hardware RAID

[Jeanne Schock]

> The RAID hardware is far below samba (or even the operating
> system), by design. The way that a RAID 5 works is that if you lose 1
drive, nothing notices
> (except the RAID monitor software, which will hopefully start calling
pagers to
> get the failed drive replaced).  Samba won't even notice that the
> drive has failed.

exactly what I needed, thank you very much. Just needed someone out there to
confirm. RAID 5 will do it. And I'm not worried about hot swapping - we can
have even a few hours downtime if needed.

Thanks Mark and to others that responded.

Jeanne