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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Simetrical+list@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3-way mirrors
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:28:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C880E03.3080109@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100907190255.15094.qmail@science.horizon.com>

George Spelvin wrote:
>> This might be useful reading:
>>
>> http://neil.brown.name/blog/20100211050355
>>     
>
> An interesting point of view, BUT...
>
> If I am seeing repeated unexplained mismatches (despite being on a good
> UPS and having no unclean shutdowns), then some part of my hardware is
> failing, and I'd like to know *what part*.
>   

How about your disk enclosure? I would think that if vibration caused a 
silent bit flip *on write* you would get a read error (CRC) reading it 
back. but... I am going on the theory that any factor which causes 
measurable errors on read is not doing anything good for writes either.

See: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/bad-bad-bad-vibrations/896

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  "We can't solve today's problems by using the same thinking we
   used in creating them." - Einstein


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-07 14:19 3-way mirrors George Spelvin
2010-09-07 16:07 ` Iordan Iordanov
2010-09-07 18:49   ` George Spelvin
2010-09-07 19:55     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2010-09-07 18:31 ` Aryeh Gregor
2010-09-07 19:02   ` George Spelvin
2010-09-08 22:28     ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2010-09-07 22:01 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08  1:33   ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08 14:52   ` George Spelvin
2010-09-08 23:04     ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08  9:40 ` RAID mismatches (and reporting thereof) Tim Small
2010-09-08 12:35   ` George Spelvin
2010-09-28 16:42 ` 3-way mirrors Tim Small
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-08  3:58 Michael Sallaway
2010-09-08  4:16 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08  5:45 Michael Sallaway
2010-09-08  6:02 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08  6:16 Michael Sallaway
2010-09-08  6:40 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-08  9:06   ` Tim Small
2010-09-08  7:01 Michael Sallaway
2010-09-08  9:11 ` Tim Small

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