[CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> Am 25.03.2010 um 22:07 schrieb Boris Epstein:
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> > Robert,
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> > Why is the size a factor here? Why would this be OK with smaller
> > disks? How would you partition this instead?
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> > Thanks.
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> > Boris.
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> This has been discussed before.
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> The root of the problem lies in the fact that when a disk fails, you  
> have to read-out the data from the other disks to re-build the RAID.
> Reads from disks have a certain probability to contain an error.
> The larger the disk and the larger the array, the more probable it is  
> to encounter such an error while rebuilding the RAID (and if that  
> happens, you're RAID is just a piece of scrap-metal)

Or as was done recently at the Wendell Free Library, your disks become
raw materials for an after school art project... :-)

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> http://www.google.com/search?q=the+end+of+raid
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> RAID5 works OK-ish for a couple of 146GB SAS-disks.

More than a couple of disks for RAID5 -- at least 3 are needed for RAID5.

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> Rainer
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