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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:49:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3slrlwkep.fsf@defiant.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3A20965B8B96960504A5C8@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> (Michael Loftis's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:01:29 -0700")

Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> writes:

> Yup we're on the same page, we just didn't think we were.  It happens
> :) R-5 (in theory) could be less reliable than a mirror

Statistically, RAID-5 with 3 or more disks is always less reliable than
a mirror. Strip size doesn't matter.

> or possibly a
> single drive,

With lot of drives.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17 19:35 FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14 Cynbe ru Taren
2006-01-17 19:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-17 20:13   ` Martin Drab
2006-01-17 23:39     ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-18  2:30       ` Martin Drab
2006-02-02 20:33     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-03  0:57       ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03  1:13         ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03 15:41         ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-03 16:13           ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03 16:38             ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-03 17:22               ` Roger Heflin
2006-02-03 19:38                 ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-03 17:51             ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03 19:10               ` Roger Heflin
2006-02-03 19:12                 ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03 19:41                   ` Phillip Susi
2006-02-03 19:45                     ` Martin Drab
2006-01-17 19:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-17 19:58 ` David R
2006-01-17 20:00 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-17 23:27 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-18  0:12   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-18 11:24     ` Erik Mouw
2006-01-18  0:21   ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-18  0:29     ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-18  2:10       ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-18  3:01         ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-18 16:49           ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2006-01-18 16:47         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-02 22:10     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-02-08 21:58       ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-18 10:54 ` Helge Hafting
2006-01-18 16:15   ` Mark Lord
2006-01-18 17:32     ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19 15:59       ` Mark Lord
2006-01-19 16:25         ` Alan Cox
2006-02-08 14:46           ` Alan Cox
2006-01-18 23:37     ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 15:53       ` Mark Lord
2006-01-19  0:13 ` Neil Brown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-03 17:00 Salyzyn, Mark
2006-02-03 17:39 ` Martin Drab
2006-02-03 19:46 ` Phillip Susi

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