[CentOS] how to create file system with less bad block??

Thu Jul 30 16:41:33 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

mcclnx mcc wrote:
> Thank you for answer.  The problem is database report "corrupt block", but we even don't know which disk  have that "corrupt block" since we use 15 disks Array.
>   

most best practices for raids I've seen suggest using not more than 8 
disks in a single RAID 5 or 6... if you need more disks in a single 
volume, build multiple raid sets then stripe them.   For a database, you 
usually don't want to use raid5 at all, as the random write performance 
is poor, rather, use raid 1 or 10 (mirror, or striped mirrors).

RAID only protects against downtime in case of a drive failure, its no 
substitute for backups, it won't protect against application based data 
corruption or much of anything else.

A database "corrupt block" is likely -not- a hard drive problem, it 
means there's a part of one of the database files that has bad data in 
it.   This can be caused by many things, only some of which are hardware 
related..   Older versions of Oracle did this occasionally, as does 
MySQL under various stress conditions.