From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: Ewan Grantham <ewan.grantham@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID-5 or RAID-6 with mdadm 1.9.0-4 and 2.6.11.9
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:48:39 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43547EA7.8000508@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d5bedd80510171720x16b962fcjd6dc878450b642d8@mail.gmail.com>
Ewan Grantham wrote:
> A rather specific question, I know. But I'm intrigued by some of the
> things I've read about what RAID-6 offers. On the other hand, given
> the version of mdadm and the Linux kernel I'm running, I'm wondering
> which would be more stable and/or give better performance.
I'm running both RAID-5 and RAID-6 on 2.6.11.7 and they work a treat.
RAID-6 saved me from a dual drive failure a little while back, where a 2nd drive developed (or
noticed) grown defects during the rebuild of the first failed drive (it takes about 15 hours to
rebuild this RAID-6)
brad@storage1:~$ uname -a
Linux storage1 2.6.11.7 #4 Fri Oct 7 20:00:25 GST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
brad@storage1:~$ /sbin/mdadm --version
mdadm - v1.9.0 - 04 February 2005
Brad
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2005-10-18 0:20 RAID-5 or RAID-6 with mdadm 1.9.0-4 and 2.6.11.9 Ewan Grantham
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