Messages in this thread | | | Date | 29 Jan 2005 19:37:31 +0100 | Date | Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:37:31 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: critical bugs in md raid5 and ATA disk failure/recovery modes |
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> 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...
When you lose a disk during recovery you can still lose unrelated data (any "sibling" in a stripe set because its parity information is incomplete). RAID-1 doesn't have this problem though.
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