From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Dameron Subject: Re: RAID 5 of RAID 5's? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:42:39 -0700 Message-ID: <1118418159.8460.1.camel@serpent> References: <1118187572.15459.96.camel@seki.nac.uci.edu> <42A93D30.6080900@apartia.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset= Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42A93D30.6080900@apartia.fr> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:11, Laurent CARON wrote: > Dan Stromberg a =C3=A9crit : >=20 > >Has anyone constructed a RAID 5 of RAID 5's using mdadm on a linux > >system? > > > >Was it reliable? > > > >How large was it? > > > >Thanks! > > > > =20 > > > Seems to be a large waste of space.... > - Ya that does. I have done a RAID0 of 2 RAID5's. Or a RAID50. Work's great. I think a RAID5 of RAID5's is going to have some seriously slow write performance.=20 Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html