From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Schwaighofer Subject: Re: A general Raid 5 question Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:36:38 +0900 Message-ID: <42C4C856.50908@tequila.co.jp> References: <5d96567b050622103157ada455@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig3561AAEC4F2F4B39C6842E5D" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5d96567b050622103157ada455@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)" Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig3561AAEC4F2F4B39C6842E5D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/23/2005 02:31 AM, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote: > If I pull the plug out from my machine while io is being generated. > Is there a chance that i would loose the raid ( obviously i would > loose some data). > I am refering to raid with no backup battery unit or anything of that sort. > > I tried to do it and the worst case was that the rebuilding was long ( > both in software raid and hardware raid -- 3ware ). > > I would appreciate answers I have several hardware raid5 and one sw raid5 and I never had any kind of issues during my initial test. Although I haven't had a poweroutage to the box (well you should have UPS in front anyway), I had two other lockups (some netaltalk issues) but the raids stayed all very fine. -- [ Clemens Schwaighofer -----=====:::::~ ] [ TEQUILA\ Japan IT Group ] [ 6-17-2 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8167, JAPAN ] [ Tel: +81-(0)3-3545-7703 Fax: +81-(0)3-3545-7343 ] [ http://www.tequila.co.jp ] --------------enig3561AAEC4F2F4B39C6842E5D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxMhYjBz/yQjBxz8RAqxiAJ9A2FLRRV6IghB8L/co3JzSnJQrWACeOfAt TknmdBVz+ehI1fLvXYcWDkM= =8kj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig3561AAEC4F2F4B39C6842E5D--