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From: Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>
To: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stripe_cache_size, some info
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:13:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJH6TXhOokv1sOQL7KLe==rJQZ6J8D0gscQKJ5MPXSm5ZLXg9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58CFFC47.3000306@youngman.org.uk>

2017-03-20 16:59 GMT+01:00 Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>:
> Burst speed, or sustained speed? Big difference ...

Both :)

> And I would avoid that entirely if I can - put the new disk in, do a
> --replace, and then remove the old one. Doing a hotswap like that will
> increase the stress on the array, and increased stress means another
> disk is more likely to fail.

On newer server, i'll tend to avoid using all slots because of this.
With at least 1 slot available, cool things could be done, like
replace disks without compromize redundancy and so on.

But on older server, i don't have enough slot available and the only
way to replace a disk is.... directly replace a disk :)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-19 18:35 stripe_cache_size, some info Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-03-20 15:59 ` Wols Lists
2017-03-20 16:13   ` Gandalf Corvotempesta [this message]
2017-03-20 16:22     ` Wols Lists
2017-03-20 16:24       ` Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-03-24  5:47 ` NeilBrown
2017-03-24  6:00   ` Roman Mamedov

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