Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964849AbWARQtx (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:49:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964831AbWARQtx (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:49:53 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:1540 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964849AbWARQtw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:49:52 -0500 To: Michael Loftis Cc: Phillip Susi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FYI: RAID5 unusably unstable through 2.6.14 References: <43CD8A19.3010100@cfl.rr.com> <7A7A0F7F294BB08D7CDA264C@d216-220-25-20.dynip.modwest.com> <43CDA3B0.2030503@cfl.rr.com> <4B3A20965B8B96960504A5C8@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:49:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4B3A20965B8B96960504A5C8@dhcp-2-206.wgops.com> (Michael Loftis's message of "Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:01:29 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 19 Michael Loftis 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/