[CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Tue May 27 01:25:11 UTC 2008
Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk>

> How about a quick picture, O = good disk, X = failed disk,
> 
> Stripe of mirrors:
> 
> X O X
> -|-|-
> O X O
> 
> A mirror of stripes:
> 
> X|O|O
> -----
> O|X|O

AH...I forgot we were on SIX disks and not four. :P
> 
> My Apologies I thought the thread was "RAID5 or RAID50 for database?".
> 
> I will next time look out for the hijacking and take appropriate action.

Yeah...it did become a general raid whatever thing...can you imagine it 
become anything else if you put a raid5 and a database question together?