[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ warrens

Tue Aug 9 23:02:57 BST 2011

Hi Joe,

> I don't get how this prevents message loss.  If there's messages in
> the master's queue and it goes down (hard drive explodes), those
> messages are lost, right?

I'm the guy who wrote that. It guarantees messages won't be lost from
the point of view of the software. As is normal whether you're running
a database, mail server, or anything else, protect your hard drives
with RAID at the hardware level to keep from a single drive failure
causing message loss.

-J