Re: A puzzling thing about RAID5: syslogd write the log success but another process can not read the /var/log/messages

[Neil Brown]

On Wednesday April 7, lmb@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2004-04-07T21:24:01,
>    Gewj <geweijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> > hammm,tonight is funny because I got a puzzling thing just as....
> > 
> > my setup is a two-scsi-disk raid5 configuration...
> 
> Impossible. RAID5 requires at least three disks.

Wrong.  RAID5 works fine with just two drives.  Try it.

NeilBrown

(I admit that there isn't a lot of point doing raid5 with two drives
as raid1 should provide identical functionality with better
performance, but it makes an interesting base-line for performances
tests on N-drive arrays).

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