On 2019-07-25 14:37, David Sterba wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 02:27:49PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
RAID10 can accept as much as half of its disks to be missing, as long as
each sub stripe still has a good mirror.
Can you please make a test case for that?
I think the number of devices that can be lost can be higher than a half
in some extreme cases: one device has copies of all stripes, 2nd copy
can be scattered randomly on the other devices, but that's highly
unlikely to happen.
It is possible, but as you mention highly unlikely. It's also possible
with raid1 mode too, and a lot less unlikely there (in fact, it's almost
guaranteed to happen in certain configurations).
On average it's same as raid1, but the more exact check can potentially
utilize the stripe layout.
