On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Francois Barre wrote: > Well, anyway, thanks for the advice. Guess I'll have to stay on ext3 > if I don't want to have nightmares... And you can always mount it as ext2 if you think the journal is corrupt. Have you considered Raid-6 rather than R5? The biggest worry I have is having a 2nd disk fail during a reconstruction. True, you lose another disks worth of space, but disk is cheap these days, right? :) Especially with 12 disks in the array. What I do now is do a read-only badblocks test on all the drives/partitions in a set if I ever have a drive failure. That way I will know in advance if a disk is going to fail during the reconstruction - however, this takes time (and can severely impact performance) but hopefully the time window between checking the disks and the reconstruction would be small enough that another disk shouldn't go faulty... 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
