> Any read > error or drive failure during the rebuild and you're in trouble. That was exactly what happened to me ! A rebuild is of course a very big load and another failure becomes more probable. > With RAID 6 you can handle 2 drive failures at any time Understood. I'll definitely switch to RAID 6 :) > They are more complex, but not enough so to trouble any modern CPU - you > might have issues on a 386/486, but I doubt you'll see any difference on > an Atom. Ok. Maybe I should update French version of Wikipedia RAID article :) I'll test by myself. For now (RAID 5), on rebuild, it's about 30MB/s. On reading, it's about 90MB/s (direct access to /dev/md127, not read from FS). gUI -- Pour la santé de votre ordinateur, préférez les logiciels libres. Lire son mail : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/thunderbird/ Browser le web : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/firefox/ Suite bureautique : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ -- 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
