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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar   performance so far
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:43:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100209154340.11d2ea18@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <702F5366-D38F-4B0C-BD52-1250CBFAC6CB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

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On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:11:14 +0000, Stroller wrote:

> You cannot remove one disk from the array and repartition it, because  
> the partition is across the array, not the disk. The single disk,  
> removed from a RAID 5 (specified by Paul Hartman) array does not  
> contain any partitions, just one stripe of them.

A 3 disk RAID 5 array can handle one disk failing. Although information
is striped across all three disks, any two are enough to retrieve it.

If this were not the case, it would be called AID 5.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Always remember to pillage before you burn.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-07 16:27 [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 17:30 ` Alexander
2010-02-07 18:19   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-07 19:26     ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 18:38   ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 19:16     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-07 19:39 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-07 20:31   ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 21:59     ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-07 21:42   ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-08  2:08     ` Willie Wong
2010-02-08 17:10       ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-08 18:52         ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-02-08 20:34           ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-09  0:27             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 12:46               ` Stroller
2010-02-09 13:34                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 23:37                   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  6:31                     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10  7:11                       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  8:37                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10  8:43                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-09 13:35                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-09 13:57                 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 15:11                   ` Stroller
2010-02-09 15:27                     ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 17:38                       ` Stroller
2010-02-09 18:25                         ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 19:29                           ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 15:43                     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-02-09 17:17                       ` Stroller
2010-02-09 20:30                         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 18:03                       ` Neil Walker
2010-02-09 19:37                         ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 23:52                           ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  1:16                             ` Stroller
2010-02-10  6:59                             ` Neil Walker
2010-02-10  7:31                               ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  1:28                           ` Stroller
2010-02-10 11:14                             ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 16:37                               ` Stroller
2010-02-10 17:26                                 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 20:48                                   ` Stroller
2010-02-10  0:11                         ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-10  6:48                           ` Neil Walker
2010-02-09 17:33               ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-09  7:47             ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 23:22               ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  7:08                 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-10 10:56                   ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 10:53                 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 11:03                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10 11:17                     ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 11:24                       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-08  5:25     ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-02-08 19:57       ` Stroller
2010-02-09  0:05     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09  0:37       ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09  2:48         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 17:09           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 18:21             ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 21:13             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 22:17               ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 22:54               ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10  0:31                 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10  1:27                   ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10  7:06                     ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-09 16:31         ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-12  9:06           ` Mick
2010-02-12 12:14             ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09  0:47       ` Stroller
2010-02-09  2:20       ` Willie Wong
2010-02-15  0:48     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-15  1:17       ` Willie Wong
2010-02-15  3:17         ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-15 18:03         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-15 23:53           ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-16 17:35             ` Frank Steinmetzger

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