On Sunday 20 November 2005 06:49 am, Lares Moreau 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?
If you are running HP equipment they have been doing it for years, calling it RAID ADG (advanced data guarding iirc). I've setup all of my servers as RAID ADG plus a hot spare to compensate for their disk failure rate. -C -- Corey Shields Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
