Re: Raid5 with two failed disks?

[Bill Carlson]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Theo Van Dinter wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:21:45PM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
> > 1+5 would still fail on 2 drives if those 2 drives where both from the 
> > same RAID 1 set. The wasted space becomes more than N/2, but it might
> > worth it for the HA aspect. RAID 6 looks cleaner, but that would require
> > someone to write an implementation, whereas you could do RAID 15 (51?)
> > now. 
> 
> 2 drives failing in either RAID 1+5 or 5+1 results in a still available
> array:

Doh, you're right. Thanks for drawing me a picture...:)

Bill Carlson
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