Re: Interpreting mdstat output

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

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> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 01:30:41PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > I beleive using 22 drives in a single RAID-5 is something like BASE
> > jumping with a large umbrella. You should at least use RAID-6, and
> > perhaps even split up the RAID into smaller ones.
> 
> Point taken, but this is actually a large dataset which could be
> recreated
> if necessary (i.e. it's derived from other data), and is also to be
> copied to another server.

Still, better use raid-6 + 1 spare than raid-5 + 2 spares. It will probably take a while to rebuild the data on that one in case of a double disk failure, and with that amount of drives, the chances are pretty decent.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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