On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:45 AM, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/02/2010 08:05, Giovanni Tessore wrote: > [...] >> > I do think we urgently need the hot reconstruction/recovery feature, so > failing drives can be recovered to fresh drives with two sources of data, > i.e. both the failing drive and the remaining drives in the array, giving us > two chances of recovering every sector. I was one of those 4 cases in the part month. I would have certainly benefited from this when I tried to replace a failing drive on my old raid-5. But I think actually the redundancy you desired can be achieved by running a raid-6 at the degraded mode (with 1 missing drive). Do I miss something? If this is the case, shouldn't we all be doing this instead of using the raid-5? > > Cheers, > > John. DS -- 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
