From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdqhS-0006is-F6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:01:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAKF0YTs021515; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:00:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAKEvxUY021268 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:57:59 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1Edqdj-0006td-2I for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:57:59 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Edqdf-0000ic-2n for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:57:55 +0000 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:57:49 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implementation details for GLEP 41 Message-ID: <20051120145749.0027af0d@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1132498152.22932.4.camel@localhost> References: <20051119170615.GW12982@mail.lieber.org> <200511192042.38836.cshields@gentoo.org> <438000AD.404@gentoo.org> <200511192104.13982.cshields@gentoo.org> <20051120054441.GA17389@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> <1132498152.22932.4.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_AvRBYq=htXMgea2g5II0m_v"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: a2c44d95-8c62-4cd8-b9ba-db39883905eb X-Archives-Hash: 244e9f5eda8fe0325bba394d70017087 --Sig_AvRBYq=htXMgea2g5II0m_v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:49:11 -0700 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. |=20 | 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_AvRBYq=htXMgea2g5II0m_v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgI7y96zL6DUtXhERAr6WAJ9lcqoZOFrz2o4YFWoR3h5JeK4NOgCffE16 r+wQ0NVzp6M/mBT1pfSoEFk= =f4XQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_AvRBYq=htXMgea2g5II0m_v-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list