Re: F7 software RAID docs?

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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Neal Becker wrote:

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

What are you going to be doing that makes you think raid 0 is desirable?
For modern home machines with lots of memory, this probably isn't going to
give you much of a speed up in typical use. It will make the chances of
your file system being lost because of a hardware problem, about double.
Raid 1 or 10 seem to be more useful for home users, than raid 0.


No!  If the prob of failure during an interval T is pf, the prob of failure
for an array of 2 drives during T is 1 - (1-pf)^2.

Which, for probabilities typical of hard drives, is *very* close to twice the probability of a single drive failure. Do the actual math. Even at 10% failure rates (!!!!) the difference between 2X (20%) and 1 - (1-pf)^2 (19%) is insignificant for all practical purposes. You won't reach probabilities high enough to care about the difference before the drives are obsolete and replaced anyway.

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