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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 write performance
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:54:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4380D479.2030203@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17279.33422.273880.463498@fisica.ufpr.br>

Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> I think the demand for any solution to the unclean array is indeed low
> because of the small probability of a double failure. Those that want
> more reliability can use a spare drive that resyncs automatically or
> raid6 (or both).

A spare disk would help, but note that raid6 does not decrease the 
probability of the silent corruption problem. Losing one disk in a raid6 
still means that you are degraded (i.e., you rely on parity to 
recalculate data, so an incomplete stripe write means corruption).

--
Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-20 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-18 14:05 raid5 write performance Jure Pečar
2005-11-18 19:19 ` Dan Stromberg
2005-11-18 19:23   ` Mike Hardy
2005-11-19  4:40     ` Guy
2005-11-19  4:57       ` Mike Hardy
2005-11-19  5:54         ` Neil Brown
2005-11-19 11:59           ` Farkas Levente
2005-11-20 23:39             ` Neil Brown
2005-11-19 19:52           ` Carlos Carvalho
2005-11-20 19:54             ` Paul Clements [this message]
2005-11-19  5:56         ` Guy
2005-11-19 19:30           ` raid5 reliability (was raid5 write performance) Carlos Carvalho
2005-11-20  0:27             ` Guy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-02 14:02 raid5 write performance Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2006-07-02 22:35 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-13 13:19   ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2006-08-28  4:32     ` Neil Brown
2007-03-30 21:44       ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-03-31 21:28         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-31 23:03           ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-04-01  2:16             ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-01 23:08         ` Dan Williams
2007-04-02 14:13           ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
     [not found]         ` <17950.50209.580439.607958@notabene.brown>
     [not found]           ` <5d96567b0704161329n5c3ca008p56df00baaa16eacb@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-19  8:28             ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
2007-04-19  9:20               ` Neil Brown

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