It really shouldn't work that way. RAID 5 is based on XOR, and I'm pretty sure XOR can only recover from a single-number failure. -But-, if you had a hot spare or warm spare configured, then it would've been possible for one drive to die, the RAID 5 to be resync'd, another drive to die, and then still be OK. On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:41 -0500, Old Fart wrote: > Andrew Burgess wrote: > >> Good discussion....the need to protect data under various contingencies > >> is why I use raid5 sets as the PVs. You can lose up to two and keep > >> your data, hot add, have spares, etc. > >> > > > > You mean raid6 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > > > > > Actually I meant raid 5 based on actual 2 disk dropouts experienced on > test systems and the LVM data was still available. Probably lucky. > Thanks for the note. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
