Thanassis Tsiodras wrote:
Handling mismatch_cnt<>0
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Am I missing something? Is MD RAID1 in fact better than what I have understood? Is there an answer that would allow me to use it
> without the uncertainty of "russian-roulette" fixes when the > inevitable mismatch_cnt<>0 occurs? RAID1 will ensure your data is not lost when one disk completely fails. This is a rather common mode of failure. You are protected against this catastrophic event but not against (minor? damage of a) sector failure. I use RAID for just this benefit. Unlike RAID5, RAID6 should be able to do better than a random correction (does it?). RAID1 with more than two disks should also do better with voting (does it?).
In other words, is there anything a Linux guy can do besides wait for btrfs or trust a FUSE version of ZFS? Thanks for any feedback, Thanassis.
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