From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dawning Sky Subject: Re: Disk I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:45:31 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87f94c371002081604g37984161h2ba65bd193714780@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87f94c371002081604g37984161h2ba65bd193714780@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg Freemyer = 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 remainin= g > drives are within spec. =A0(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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html