On 18/03/2008, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
> Isn't a 10 or 24 spindle RAID 5 array awfully likely to encounter a
> double disk failure (such as during the load imposed by rebuild onto a
> spare) ?
I never said that we actually USED that set-up. I just said
I did extensive testing with varied RAID-setups. ;} We did go
with the 10 in the end because of that very consideration.
It's just that the mantra "RAID5 = slow writes" isn't quite true.
Cheers,
Andrej
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