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From: Carsten Aulbert <Carsten.Aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
To: Robert L Mathews <lists@tigertech.com>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Use RAID-6!
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:05:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516DAF21.5040409@aei.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516DABF2.5050409@tigertech.com>

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Hi

On 04/16/2013 09:52 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> I personally don't even trust RAID 6. All our servers use three-disk
> RAID 1 setups, with disks from at least two different manufacturers to
> prevent against firmware bricking (although this is becoming more and
> more difficult as the industry consolidates).

The problem I find with RAID1 is that it won't protect you against
silent corruptions (same as RAID5). What do you do if you do a through
check and both drives claim a data block is valid and intact, but data
differs? Do you trust disk1 or disk2?

In that respect I think RAID1 is a step into the wrong direction :(

Cheers

Carsten


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-16 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-16 16:44 Use RAID-6! Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-04-16 17:09 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-04-16 17:25   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-04-16 20:01   ` David Brown
2013-04-17  7:56     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-04-17  9:26       ` David Brown
2013-04-16 19:52 ` Robert L Mathews
2013-04-16 20:05   ` Carsten Aulbert [this message]
2013-04-16 20:19     ` Roman Mamedov
2013-04-16 22:44     ` Robert L Mathews
2013-04-17  0:20       ` Ben Bucksch
2013-04-17  1:35         ` Adam Goryachev
2013-04-17  4:27           ` Robert L Mathews
2013-04-17  4:45             ` Adam Goryachev
2013-04-17  6:06             ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-04-17 11:13           ` Ben Bucksch
2013-04-17 11:32             ` Adam Goryachev
2013-04-17 11:51               ` Ben Bucksch
2013-04-17 17:50                 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-04-17  3:32         ` Robert L Mathews
2013-04-17  4:20       ` Roman Mamedov
2013-04-17  5:22         ` Robert L Mathews
2013-04-17 17:27   ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-04-16 23:42 ` md dropping disks too early (was: Use RAID-6!) Ben Bucksch
2013-04-17  8:00   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-04-17 10:57     ` md dropping disks too early Ben Bucksch
2013-04-17 15:03       ` Keith Keller
2013-04-17 18:09       ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

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