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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, jason.meinzer@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Bug with RAID1 hot spares?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:41:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <453EC0C4.2040006@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610202046.43033.chase.venters@clientec.com>

Chase Venters wrote:

>Greetings,
>	I was just testing a server I was about to send into production on kernel 
>2.6.18.1. The server has three SCSI disks with "md1" set to a RAID1 with 2 
>mirrors and 1 spare.
>
I have to ask, why? If the array is mostly written you might save a bit 
of bus time, but for reads having another copy of the data to read 
(usually) helps the performance by reducing wait for read occurences.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-21  1:46 Bug with RAID1 hot spares? Chase Venters
2006-10-23  4:13 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-25  1:41 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-10-25  4:43   ` Chase Venters
2006-10-25 10:41     ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe

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