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From: Markus Hochholdinger <Markus@hochholdinger.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possilble to be "delay tolerant" or have "slow dropout" of unavailable components?
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:48:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804081948.41959.Markus@hochholdinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FBA3BB.2030007@nrel.colostate.edu>

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hi,

Am Dienstag, 8. April 2008 18:56 schrieb Ty! Boyack:
> I'm curious if there is a way to have a raid set (raid5 in my case, but
> this could apply to any raid level) that could tolerate a component
> device being unavailable for a period of time.

for RAID1 there is "--write-mostly" and "--write-behind=". Don't know if this 
is already available for RAID5.

There's also the option "--bitmap=" which can speedup a resync when 
temporarily disconnecting one device.


-- 
greetings

eMHa

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08 16:56 Is it possilble to be "delay tolerant" or have "slow dropout" of unavailable components? Ty! Boyack
2008-04-08 17:48 ` Markus Hochholdinger [this message]
2008-04-08 18:24   ` Ty! Boyack
2008-04-08 18:54     ` Peter Rabbitson

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