[CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

On 4/11/2013 12:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Ok, listening to all of this, I've also been in touch with a tech from the
> vendor*, who had a couple of suggestions: first, two RAID sets with two
> global hot spares.


I would test how long a drive rebuild takes on a 20 disk RAID6.    I 
suspect, very long, like over 24 hours, assuming a fast controller and 
sufficient channel bandwidth.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
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