> Well, you could set stripe size to 512B; that way, RAID-5 would be > *very* slow, but it should have same characteristics as normal disc > w.r.t. crash. Unrelated data would not be lost, and you'd either get > old data or new data...
When you lose a disk during recovery you can still lose unrelated data (any "sibling" in a stripe set because its parity information is incomplete). RAID-1 doesn't have this problem though. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
