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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
To: Pol Hallen <polhallen@fuckaround.org>
Cc: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: advice to low cost hardware raid (with mdadm)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:41:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C929D19.80001@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6947b76728ca8c5d78d4d05fbd7894c.squirrel@fuckaround.org>

On 10-09-16 00:03, Pol Hallen wrote:
>
>>additionally, in the event
>>  of a disk failure, rebuilding a 6x1TB RAID5/6 array will take forever
>>  and a day.
>
> a nightmare...
>
> very thanks for your reasoning.. I don't have enought experience about
> raid and friends!
>
> Pol

One remark - write intent bitmaps will make it perfectly fine (orders of 
magnitude faster). I'm not sure how the feature looks from performance 
point of view these days though.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-15 20:07 advice to low cost hardware raid (with mdadm) Pol Hallen
2010-09-15 20:41 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-15 21:40   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2010-09-15 22:25     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-16 12:05       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2010-09-15 22:03   ` Pol Hallen
2010-09-15 23:56     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-16 22:41     ` Michal Soltys [this message]
2010-09-17  0:42       ` John Robinson
2010-09-17  4:38       ` Stan Hoeppner

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