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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:35:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129183511.GA2055@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050127163323.GA7474@schmorp.de>

Hi!

> > The nasty part there is that it can affect completely unrelated
> > data too (on a traditional disk you normally only lose the data
> > that is currently being written) because of of the relationship
> > between stripes on different disks.

Well, you could set stripe size to 512B; that way, RAID-5 would be
*very* slow, but it should have same characteristics as normal disc
w.r.t. crash. Unrelated data would not be lost, and you'd either get
old data or new data...

Nasty part might be that if it went to degraded mode (before resync is
done), data on disk might silently change; that's bad I guess.

Performance would not be good, also.
								Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27  3:59 critical bugs in md raid5 Marc Lehmann
2005-01-27  5:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27  6:31   ` Marc Lehmann
2005-01-27  9:51     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-27 16:33       ` critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes Marc Lehmann
2005-01-29 18:35         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-01-29 18:37           ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-29 18:55             ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-27 16:56       ` critical bugs in md raid5 Lehmann 
2005-01-27  6:48   ` Lehmann 

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