Re: controller failure hosed raid5 array :-(

[Anonymous]

Osma Ahvenlampi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 15 June 1999 09:32:
 >Four disks out of six carrying data. Not too bad, I think, if you're
 >aiming for data security.

Yes, if only I could afford it :-(

 >Linux supports any combination you can think of, since you can stack
 >md's on top of each other.

Ah! Excellent! On the other hand, doesn't this make performance bad?
At first it doesn't, because what's expensive is raid5, and it's done
only once. raid0 doesn't have to do multiple reads/writes...