Re: Few questions

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Makuch
Guy Watkins wrote: man md man mdadm I use RAID6. Happy with it so far, but haven't had a disk failure yet. RAID5 sucks because if you have 1 failed disk and 1 bad block on any other disk, you are hosed. Hope that helps. I can't believe I've been using a raid array for 2 years and didn't know

Re: /proc/mdstat docs (was Re: Few questions)

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Makuch
David Greaves wrote: Michael Makuch wrote: So my questions are: ... - Is this a.o.k for a raid5 array? So I realised that /proc/mdstat isn't documented too well anywhere... http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Mdstat Comments welcome... David One thing, i

Few questions

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Makuch
I realize this is the developers list and though I am a developer I'm not a developer of linux raid, but I can find no other source of answers to these questions: I've been using linux software raid (5) for a couple of years, having recently uped to the 2.6.23 kernel (FC7, was previously on FC