On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:49:11 -0700 Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:29 -0700, Duncan wrote: | > If the capacity is there, go RAID6 (dual parity RAID5, so two | > drives can drop out without the thing dieing) with a hot-spare as | > well, so threex146GB usable. | | Is RAID6 production ready?
RAID6 was only invented because a certain large hardware manufacturer shipped a bunch of duff disks in one of its drive arrays. In practice it's not necessary, because if you're taking the kind of damage that kills multiple drives over a short period then you're going to lose more than two drives anyway. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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