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From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: John McMonagle <johnm@advocap.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Convert raid5 to raid1?
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:04:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4230D279.5090101@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4230BE56.6090905@advocap.org>

John McMonagle wrote:
> Was planning to adding a hot spare to my 3 disk raid5 array and was 
> thinking if I go to 4 drives I would be a  better off  as 2 raid1 arrays 
> considering the current state of raid5.

I just wonder about the comment "considering the current state of raid5". What might be wrong with 
raid5 currently? I certainly know a number of people (me included) who run several "large" raid-5 
arrays and don't have any problems.

Brad
-- 
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10 21:38 Convert raid5 to raid1? John McMonagle
2005-03-10 22:34 ` Frank Wittig
2005-03-10 23:04 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2005-03-10 23:13   ` Guy
2005-03-11  0:02   ` John McMonagle
2005-03-11  3:09     ` Guy
2005-03-11  8:58     ` David Greaves
2005-03-11  0:11   ` Paul Clements

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