From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: Convert raid5 to raid1? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:04:25 +0400 Message-ID: <4230D279.5090101@wasp.net.au> References: <4230BE56.6090905@advocap.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4230BE56.6090905@advocap.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John McMonagle Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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