On Tue 2009-08-25 20:11:21, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 08/25/2009 07:53 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> Why don't you hold all of your most precious data on that single S-ATA >>> drive for five year on one box and put a second copy on a small RAID5 >>> with ext3 for the same period? >>> >>> Repeat experiment until you get up to something like google scale or the >>> other papers on failures in national labs in the US and then we can have >>> an informed discussion. >> >> I'm not interested in discussing statistics with you. I'd rather discuss >> fsync() and storage design issues. >> >> ext3 is designed to work on single SATA disks, and it is not designed >> to work on flash cards/degraded MD RAID5s, as Ted acknowledged. > > You are simply incorrect, Ted did not say that ext3 does not work > with MD raid5. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/25/312 Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
