Re: RAID-5 design bug (or misfeature)

[Bernd Eckenfels]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:47:58AM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> But root disk might fail too... This way, the system can't be taken down
> by any single disk crash.

Yes, mirroring has here good properties, must boot loaders work with it, it
is less suspectible to silent corruption and you can use a 1+0 configuration
for additional protection against multi disk failures.

Greetings
Bernd
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