Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14 | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:49:50 +0100 |
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Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> writes:
> Yup we're on the same page, we just didn't think we were. It happens > :) R-5 (in theory) could be less reliable than a mirror
Statistically, RAID-5 with 3 or more disks is always less reliable than a mirror. Strip size doesn't matter.
> or possibly a > single drive,
With lot of drives. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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