Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261503AbVE3DAn (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 23:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261505AbVE3DAm (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 23:00:42 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:31981 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261503AbVE3DAj (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 23:00:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 05:00:37 +0200 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RAID-5 design bug (or misfeature) Message-ID: <20050530030037.GA9022@lina.inka.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 15 On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:47:58AM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > But root disk might fail too... This way, the system can't be taken down > by any single disk crash. Yes, mirroring has here good properties, must boot loaders work with it, it is less suspectible to silent corruption and you can use a 1+0 configuration for additional protection against multi disk failures. Greetings Bernd - 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/