On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:57:35PM -0500, Guy wrote: > His plan is to split the disks into 6 partitions. > Each of his six RAID5 arrays will only use 1 partition of each physical > disk. > If he were to lose a disk, all 6 RAID5 arrays would only see 1 failed disk. > If he gets 2 read errors, on different disks, at the same time, he has a 1/6 > chance they would be in the same array (which would be bad). > His plan is to combine the 6 arrays with LVM or a linear array. Intriguing setup. Do you think this actually improves the reliability with respect to disk failure compared to creating just one large RAID5 array? For one second I thought it's a clever trick but gut feeling tells me the odds of losing the entire array won't change (simplified -- because the increased complexity creates room for additional errors). -- Frank - 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
