Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:48:35 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RAID5
Message-ID:  <20010904104835.B10292@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010903142613.O10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:27:13PM -0400
References:  <031a01c1349f$6a4cb160$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> <20010903142613.O10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Monday,  3 September 2001 at 14:27:13 -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Ronan Lucio wrote:
>
>> Hi Friends,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your answers.
>>
>> Once more to confirm:
>> So, If I have 3 HDs with 36 Gb each, I will have 72 Gb of
>> avaliable space and I one of them breake, the computer will
>> continues working in another one until I have replace it? Ok?
>
>     Yes, but write performance will be absolutely horrible until you
> replace the broken drive and rebuild the volume.

No, this is not correct.  Write performance is better when one drive
is down.  Reliability isn't :-)

Greg
--
See complete headers for address and phone numbers

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010904104835.B10292>