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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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  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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