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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far | ||
| Date: | Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:08:25 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20100209154340.11d2ea18@zaphod.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far by Stroller |
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| 1 | On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:11:14 +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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| 3 | > You cannot remove one disk from the array and repartition it, because |
| 4 | > the partition is across the array, not the disk. The single disk, |
| 5 | > removed from a RAID 5 (specified by Paul Hartman) array does not |
| 6 | > contain any partitions, just one stripe of them. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | A 3 disk RAID 5 array can handle one disk failing. Although information |
| 9 | is striped across all three disks, any two are enough to retrieve it. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | If this were not the case, it would be called AID 5. |
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| 13 | |
| 14 | -- |
| 15 | Neil Bothwick |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Always remember to pillage before you burn. |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far | Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far | Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu> |