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From: Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: emergency call for help: raid5 fallen apart
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:41:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf93d751002250941t4ba2a222ua0406bc3c95e90@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B86A943.3040804@anonymous.org.uk>

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:45 AM, John Robinson
<john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
> On 25/02/2010 08:05, Giovanni Tessore wrote:
> [...]
>>
> I do think we urgently need the hot reconstruction/recovery feature, so
> failing drives can be recovered to fresh drives with two sources of data,
> i.e. both the failing drive and the remaining drives in the array, giving us
> two chances of recovering every sector.

I was one of those 4 cases in the part month.  I would have certainly
benefited from this when I tried to replace a failing drive on my old
raid-5.  But  I think actually the redundancy you desired can be
achieved by running a raid-6 at the degraded mode (with 1 missing
drive).

Do I miss something?  If this is the case, shouldn't we all
be doing this instead of using the raid-5?


>
> Cheers,
>
> John.

DS

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-25 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24 14:54 emergency call for help: raid5 fallen apart Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 15:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 15:22   ` Robin Hill
2010-02-24 15:32     ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 16:38       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 16:53         ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 17:02           ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-25  8:05             ` Giovanni Tessore
2010-02-25 16:27               ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2010-02-25 16:45               ` John Robinson
2010-02-25 17:41                 ` Dawning Sky [this message]
2010-02-25 18:31                   ` John Robinson
2010-02-26  2:42                     ` Michael Evans
2010-02-26 20:15                 ` Bill Davidsen
2010-02-28 11:50                 ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2010-02-28 12:52                   ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2010-02-24 17:09           ` Robin Hill
2010-02-24 17:28             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 17:35             ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2010-02-24 18:12               ` Robin Hill
2010-02-24 19:54                 ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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