2007/10/26, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Friday 2007-10-26 at 00:16 -0300, Ciro Iriarte wrote: > > > Anybody has experience with linux Raid5 and power outages?, i > > currently have two 250GB disks in a RAID1 array in my main > > workstation. When there's any power outage the array is rebuilt but > > given it's a mirror it's not a major issue. > > > > Now i would like to add 4 500GB disks in a secondary array with raid5 > > but i'm afraid i would lose the array if there's any outage (have to > > mention a UPS in my letter to Santa....) > > > > Anybody knows if the raid5 (md) would survive this scenario? > > It should. > > It might, actually: no filesystem likes a power outage, and no raid will > protect you from that. > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. I expect it to survive in the sense that i don't have to reinit the raid losing all the data... A filesysten check procedure requires a working RAID...
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