Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-08-18 Thread Roch - PAE
Kyle McDonald writes: Ross wrote: Just re-read that and it's badly phrased. What I meant to say is that a raid-z / raid-5 array based on 500GB drives seems to have around a 1 in 10 chance of loosing some data during a full rebuild. Actually, I think it's been

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-05 Thread Ross
I've read various articles along those lines. My understanding is that a 500GB odd raid-z / raid-5 array has around a 1 in 10 chance of loosing at least some data during a rebuild. I'd have raid-5 arrays fail at least 4 times, twice during a rebuild. In most cases I've been able to recover

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-05 Thread Ross
Just re-read that and it's badly phrased. What I meant to say is that a raid-z / raid-5 array based on 500GB drives seems to have around a 1 in 10 chance of loosing some data during a full rebuild. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-05 Thread Kyle McDonald
Ross wrote: Just re-read that and it's badly phrased. What I meant to say is that a raid-z / raid-5 array based on 500GB drives seems to have around a 1 in 10 chance of loosing some data during a full rebuild. Actually, I think it's been explained already why this is actually one

[zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-03 Thread Jim
Anyone here read the article Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 at http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 Does RAIDZ have the same chance of unrecoverable read error as RAID5 in Linux if the RAID has to be rebuilt because of a faulty disk? I imagine so because of the physical constraints that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-03 Thread Aaron Blew
My take is that since RAID-Z creates a stripe for every block (http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z), it should be able to rebuild the bad sectors on a per block basis. I'd assume that the likelihood of having bad sectors on the same places of all the disks is pretty low since we're only

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

2008-07-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Aaron Blew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My take is that since RAID-Z creates a stripe for every block (http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z), it should be able to rebuild the bad sectors on a per block basis. I'd assume that the likelihood of having bad