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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes
Date: 29 Jan 2005 19:37:31 +0100
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:37:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129183731.GA40659@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050129183511.GA2055@elf.ucw.cz>

> Well, you could set stripe size to 512B; that way, RAID-5 would be
> *very* slow, but it should have same characteristics as normal disc
> w.r.t. crash. Unrelated data would not be lost, and you'd either get
> old data or new data...

When you lose a disk during recovery you can still lose
unrelated data (any "sibling" in a stripe set because its parity
information is incomplete).  RAID-1 doesn't have this problem though.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27  3:59 critical bugs in md raid5 Marc Lehmann
2005-01-27  5:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27  6:31   ` Marc Lehmann
2005-01-27  9:51     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 16:33       ` critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes Marc Lehmann
2005-01-29 18:35         ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-29 18:37           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-01-29 18:55             ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-27 16:56       ` critical bugs in md raid5 Lehmann 
2005-01-27  6:48   ` Lehmann 

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