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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Subject: Re: Suboptimal raid6 linear read speed
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:21:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20597456.6.1358601718986.JavaMail.root@zimbra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F9D32F.7090606@hardwarefreak.com>

> >> The probability of a URE during rebuild increases with the number
> >> and
> >> size of the source drives being read to rebuild the failed drive.
> >> Thus
> >> the probability of encountering a URE in the 1:1 drive scenario is
> >> extremely low, close to zero if you believe manufacturer specs.
> >
> > For a 2TB drive and BER 10^-14 (common for non-enterprise drives),
> > the
> > probability is 1/6 of a single URE for a read of the entire drive.
> 
> If my math is correct, with a URE rate of 10E14, that's one URE for
> every ~12.5TB read. So theoretically one would have to read the entire
> 2TB drive more than 6 times before hitting the first URE. So it seems
> unlikely that one would hit a URE during a mirror rebuild with such a
> 2TB drive.

ok, perhaps, maybe, but then it's 17% chance of losing data after a mirror or raid-5 rebuild with 2TB drives, or the double of that if using 4TB drives. That's not very amusing…

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-19 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-15 12:33 Suboptimal raid6 linear read speed Peter Rabbitson
2013-01-15 12:45 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-15 12:56   ` Peter Rabbitson
2013-01-15 16:13     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-15 12:49 ` Phil Turmel
2013-01-15 12:55   ` Peter Rabbitson
2013-01-15 17:09     ` Charles Polisher
2013-01-15 19:57       ` keld
2013-01-16  4:43         ` Charles Polisher
2013-01-16  6:37           ` Tommy Apel Hansen
2013-01-16  9:36           ` keld
2013-01-16 16:09             ` Charles Polisher
2013-01-16 20:40               ` EJ Vincent
2013-01-15 23:17     ` Phil Turmel
2013-01-16  2:48     ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-01-16  2:58       ` Peter Rabbitson
2013-01-16 20:29         ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-01-16 21:20           ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-01-17 15:51           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-18  8:31             ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-01-18  9:18               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-18 22:56                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-01-19  7:43                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-19 22:48                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-01-19 23:51                       ` Maarten
2013-01-20  0:16                         ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-20  0:49                           ` Maarten
2013-01-20  1:37                             ` Phil Turmel
2013-01-20  9:44                             ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-20  6:26                           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-20  9:39                             ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-20 16:55                               ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-20 17:15                                 ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-20 17:17                                   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-20 17:20                                     ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-19 23:53                       ` Phil Turmel
2013-01-20  9:04                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-20 19:28                     ` Peter Grandi
2013-01-20 21:09                       ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-20 21:50                         ` Peter Grandi
2013-01-21  5:24                           ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-01-21 14:40                       ` Peter Rabbitson
2013-01-21 20:32                         ` Peter Grandi
2013-01-21 20:55                           ` Peter Grandi
2013-01-21 22:00                         ` Peter Grandi
2013-01-19 13:21                   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [this message]

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