On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I can't speak for the EVMS people, but I got to stress-test my RAID6 > test system some this weekend; after having run in 1-disk degraded > mode for several months (thus showing that the big bad "degraded > write" bug has been thoroughly fixed) I changed the motherboard, and > the kernel didn't support one of the controllers. And now there were > 2 missing drives. Due to some bootloader problems, I ended up > yo-yoing between the two kernels a bit more than I intended to, and > went through quite a few RAID disk losses and rebuilds as a result. I bit the bullet recently and moved a raft of servers over to 2.6.11 and RAID-6. Biggest single partition is 1.3TB over 8 drives. Oddest is probably 4 drives in a RAID-6 setup, but hey ... (All are running Debian Woody FWIW) So-far so good. No crashes, no failures. Performance is adequate (Mix of Opteron and Hyperthreading Xeon processors, SCSI and SATA drives, Gb Ether) and I'm hoping they'll stay that way for the next 3 years until they are replaced. 6 years ago, I built mt first (Linux S/W) RAID-5 system... (and that server was only retired last year) Lets hope RAID-6 does just as good a job! Gordon - 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
