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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: feature suggestion to handle read errors during re-sync of raid5
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:17:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B65AD05.5050000@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1001302228540.15329@uplift.swm.pp.se>

On 30/01/2010 21:33, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
[...]
> I think the 4k sector size on WD20EARS (for instance) is supposed to add 
> more ECC information but I'm not sure how this will affect the 10^14 
> error rate.

iirc part of the point of moving to 4K sectors is to improve the error 
correction to something like 1 in 10^20 or 22 without losing storage 
density, partly by using what was lost before in inter-sector gaps and 
partly because you can do better with more bits of ECC over more data.

Frankly I wish they'd sacrificed a little storage density and improved 
the error rate a long time ago.

Cheers,

John.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-31 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-30 12:37 feature suggestion to handle read errors during re-sync of raid5 Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-01-30 17:51 ` Giovanni Tessore
2010-01-30 19:04   ` John Robinson
2010-01-30 21:33     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-01-30 22:04       ` Asdo
2010-01-30 22:25         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-01-31 16:17       ` John Robinson [this message]
2010-01-31 16:34         ` Asdo
2010-01-31 18:04           ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-01-31 17:56         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-01  1:30           ` Roger Heflin
2010-02-01  7:15             ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-01 13:33               ` Guy Watkins
2010-02-01 13:42                 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-01 15:15                   ` Goswin von Brederlow
2010-02-01 16:28                     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-01 20:30                       ` Richard Scobie
2010-02-02 11:06                       ` John Robinson
2010-01-30 21:09   ` Asdo
2010-01-30 18:59 ` Goswin von Brederlow

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