[Beowulf] Surviving a double disk failure

[Michael Will]

raid6 is also new code with new bugs that can lead to dataloss as well, regardless of its nice 'can survive
two drive failures' feature. I have seen it happen.

Michael

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From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of Orion Poplawski
Sent: Fri 4/10/2009 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Surviving a double disk failure
 
Joe Landman wrote:
> Stuart Midgley wrote:
> 
> Good work Stuart!
> 
>> What are the lessons learnt? Well with software raid Linux is both your 
> 
> 1) Use RAID6.  It is your friend.  RAID5 is unashamedly your enemy.

So, what's a reasonably limit on the number of disks in a RAID6 array 
using 1.5TB disks?

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