As someone that has seen two shelf failures, once the shelf has been repaired/replaced
the system will come back up with NO loss of data. An extra shelf, is a good idea.

Paul

Mike Mueller wrote:

What about the case when a whole shelf goes away at once (power is
lost to the shelf for instance)? This seems more likely than a
multiple disk failure. Is this recoverable?
-- Mike

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