On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 10:06 +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: > > Handling mismatch_cnt<>0 > [trim] > > 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?). Nope > > RAID1 with more than two disks should also do better with voting > (does it?). Nope. Theres a previous thread i started about this, with more details.. > > > 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. > -- 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
