Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bob Proulx a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bob Proulx a écrit : I favor RAID6's extra redundancy for more safety but I still use RAID1 too. RAID 1 can provide as much or more redundancy than RAID 6. RAID 1 on 3 disks provides as much redundancy as RAID 6. RAID 1 on 4 disks provides more

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bob Proulx a écrit : Do you have any articles or blogs or postings you have written that would summarize raid alternatives? I would enjoy reading whatever you have written on the subject. Or if you recommended other references. There is no need to write anything

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bob Proulx a écrit : I favor RAID6's extra redundancy for more safety but I still use RAID1 too. RAID 1 can provide as much or more redundancy than RAID 6. RAID 1 on 3 disks provides as much redundancy as RAID 6. RAID 1 on 4 disks provides more redundancy than RAID 6 (but half the usable

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Hello Pascal, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bob Proulx a écrit : I favor RAID6's extra redundancy for more safety but I still use RAID1 too. RAID 1 can provide as much or more redundancy than RAID 6. RAID 1 on 3 disks provides as much redundancy as RAID 6. RAID 1 on 4 disks provides more

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Dale wrote: Mart van de Wege wrote: The problem is not that RAID5 does not provide resilience against a single disk failure. The problem is that with modern disk capacities, the chances of *another* disk failing while the array is rebuilding have significantly risen. Especially

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Gary Dale a écrit : On 05/12/14 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: You can think of the RAID algorithms as parity checks. A mirror is even parity. This point of view is a bit twisted, but I can understand and won't argue. While the disks are not physically assigned to be data or parity,

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Mart van de Wege
Gary Dale extremegroundmai...@gmail.com writes: On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which would mean 3

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 05:01 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale extremegroundmai...@gmail.com writes: On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Some mistakes in what you wrote. Gary Dale a écrit : RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both immune to single disk failures in their most common configurations (1 or more data disks with 1 parity disk). RAID 10 is also immune to single disk failure but uses half the disks for parity. RAID 1

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/05/2014 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Linux can use a special RAID 10 mode (mirror+stripe) with two or three disks. with 6 disks, RAID 6 will give you double the capacity of 4 disks or get you immunity to 3 disks failing. RAID 6 can survive 2 disk failures regarless of the number

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Some mistakes in what you wrote. Gary Dale a écrit : RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both immune to single disk failures in their most common configurations (1 or more data disks with 1 parity disk). RAID 10 is also immune to single disk failure but

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which would mean 3 physical drives would be used in this RAID5. But can I specify that one drive is missing as

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which would mean 3 physical drives would be used in this RAID5. But can I