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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] secure write for RAID1
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:33:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050425123328.GP32085@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1toqj2-sjd.ln1@news.it.uc3m.es>

On 2005-04-23T22:48:01, "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

> This patch (completely untested of course - what, me?) makes RAID1 write
> to all components of a raid-1 array, else return error to the write
> attempt, when one component cannot be written.

Would it make sense to generalize and introduce a "write quorum" for
arrays with more than 2 mirrors - ie, must be committed to at least n
disks?

This would also apply to RAID6, actually. One could say that it needs to
be committed to N-1 disks; as RAID6 could cope with N-2 failures,
redundancy would still be preserved.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-23 20:48 [PATCH] secure write for RAID1 Peter T. Breuer
2005-04-25 12:33 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2005-04-25 15:52   ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-04-25 16:29   ` Peter T. Breuer
2005-04-25 17:03     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-27  3:24 ` Neil Brown
2005-04-27  6:05   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-27 11:26     ` Luca Berra
2005-04-28 12:34     ` Tom Coughlan

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