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From: Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 5 performance problems
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:13:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030403191311.GA9406@glacier.arctrix.com> (raw)

Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com> wrote:
> Absolutely correct - you should *never* run IDE RAID on a channel that
> has both a master and slave.  When one disk on an IDE channel has an
> error, the whole channel is reset - this makes both disks
> inaccessible,
> and RAID5 now has two failed disks => you data is gone!  *ALWAYS* use
> separate IDE channels.

I think it's okay to use both channels if you use RAID0+1 (also
known as RAID10), just be sure to mirror across channels.  As a
bonus, RAID0+1 is significantly faster than RAID5.

  Neil

             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-03 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-03 19:13 Neil Schemenauer [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-04 16:01 RAID 5 performance problems Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 16:01 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-05  0:10 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-05  0:10   ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 15:05 Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 15:05 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 11:44 Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 11:44 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-04 14:39 ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-04-03 20:10 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-03 19:49 Andy Arvai
2003-04-03 20:25 ` Mike Dresser
2003-04-03 20:25   ` Mike Dresser
2003-04-03 21:10 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 21:10   ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 21:31   ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-04-03 15:45 Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 15:45 ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 18:05 ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 18:05   ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 18:47   ` Ross Vandegrift
2003-04-03 19:22     ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-04-03 19:20   ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-04-03 19:28     ` Alan Cox
2003-04-03 21:02     ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-04-03 21:25       ` Stephan van Hienen
2003-04-03 21:38     ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 21:38       ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 22:09       ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 22:09         ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 22:16         ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 22:16           ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 22:28         ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 22:28           ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 21:42   ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 21:42     ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 22:13     ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-03 22:13       ` Peter L. Ashford
2003-04-04 20:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-03 21:06 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-04-03 21:14   ` Jonathan Vardy
2003-04-03 21:14     ` Jonathan Vardy

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