[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ warrens

Jason J. W. Williams jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com
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


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