Ciro Iriarte wrote:

> 2007/10/26, Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>> A RAID5 will survive a single-disk failure.  I believe RAID6 can deal
>> with a dual-disk failure, but you'll need more disks.
>>
>>
>> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>>
> Well, i'm not talking about a phisical failure, but logical failure of
> the array, the kind of failure that would require a rebuild of the
> array...

Ah, then the answer is - maybe, maybe not.  I'm sure it could quite
possibly survive, but I also know for a fact it doesn't always.  



/Per Jessen, Zürich

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