From: Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@gmail.com>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:45:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf93d751002081645o2906c43fnc8468c81747fdd3c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f94c371002081604g37984161h2ba65bd193714780@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> PS, if in the end I have to build a new array, I'll probably go with a
>> raid 6 instead.
>
> Agreed, someone recently posted that for a raid-5 composed of 1TB
> drives the odds of a rebuild failure are 1 in 67 even if the remaining
> drives are within spec. (ie. the unrecoverable bit error rate is
> slowing succumbing to the ever increasing size of drives.)
Has anyone done similar calculation for raid-6?
>
> Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-09 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-08 23:23 Disk I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 0:04 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-02-09 0:45 ` Dawning Sky [this message]
2010-02-09 10:22 ` Jon Hardcastle
2010-02-09 11:57 ` John Robinson
2010-02-09 17:43 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 19:28 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-02-09 1:23 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 4:24 ` Wil Reichert
2010-02-09 4:26 ` Steven Haigh
2010-02-09 4:37 ` Wil Reichert
2010-02-09 4:20 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 6:57 ` Stefan Hübner
2010-02-09 7:39 ` Dawning Sky
2010-02-09 8:05 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
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2010-02-09 0:25 russ
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