On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:22:40PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > > BTW, has anyone tried RAID 6? It's in recent Linux kernels. It claims > to survive the loss of any two drives in a set. >
From what I here, RAID 6 performs unbelievably badly if two drives die. If you're rebuilding two drives, it'll be even worse. I'd personally rather restore from backup when things get that bad. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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