Ciro Iriarte wrote:
2007/10/26, Per Jessen <per@computer.org>:
Ciro Iriarte wrote:
Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to mention a UPS in my letter to Santa....)
Anybody knows if the raid5 (md) would survive this scenario?
A RAID5 will survive a single-disk failure. I believe RAID6 can deal with a dual-disk failure, but you'll need more disks.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Well, i'm not talking about a phisical failure, but logical failure of the array, the kind of failure that would require a rebuild of the array...
Ah, then the answer is - maybe, maybe not. I'm sure it could quite possibly survive, but I also know for a fact it doesn't always. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org