On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 04:29:09PM -0400, anybody wrote: > 1 disk has a bad sector and another disk fails, game over. On a single-disk, 1 bad sector kills just the one unlucky file. On a degraded RAID0 or RAID5, 1 bad sector kills the filesystem. On a healthy RAID0 or RAID5, 2 bad sectors on different disks kill the filesystem. Does this make sense? RAID is less fault tolerant than a single disk? -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
