Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161073AbWASSJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:09:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161075AbWASSJH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:09:07 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:54664 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161073AbWASSJG (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:09:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:07:48 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Phillip Susi , govind raj Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RAID 5+0 support Message-ID: <20060119180748.GX10884@marowsky-bree.de> References: <43CFCBB2.3050003@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <43CFCBB2.3050003@cfl.rr.com> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 23 On 2006-01-19T12:26:10, Phillip Susi wrote: > Why on earth would you want to stripe two raid-5's instead of using one > raid-5 that is twice as big? You'd get more usable disk space that way. If redundancy is the goal - to be able to withstand two drive failures -, RAID6 would be the considerably better choice. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - 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/