On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Dewey Sasser wrote:
> Summary: yes, Linux RAID is viable. > > > Daniel's point about read failure during rebuild is a good one -- with a > RAID5 of multi-TB levels I do indeed have that concern. RAID is showing > its design age in this respect. I combat this with periodic SMART drive > self-tests (exactly what they do varies from drive to drive) and also by > background full volume reads. I'd be happy to have a more detailed > discussion on why this helps if anyone is interested. > I for one would certainly be very interested - we have lots of md space and see drive failures every year. No lost data yet, but still quite a nuisance. Daniel _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
