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From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux raid-like idea
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 19:41:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ba44595-8986-0b22-7495-d8a15fb96dbd@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24413.1342.676749.275674@quad.stoffel.home>

On 12/09/2020 18:28, John Stoffel wrote:
> I had one of my 4tb disks fall out of my main VG, but I didn't lose
> and data, I just checked the disk and added it back in.  I've got a
> new 4tb disk on order along with a drive cage so I can balance things
> better.
> 
> But it's almost to the point where it's cheaper to buy a pair of 8tb
> drives to replace the 4x4tb drives I'm using now.  But I probably
> won't.
> 
You should have bought an 8TB to replace the 4 ... one more failure :-( 
and you would have your 2x8 (and raid-0 the remaining 4s to provide your 
3rd mirror).

> I could  write for hours here... it's a tough problem space to work
> through.

Made worse if, like me, you're more into logical completeness than "will 
it finish in finite time" :-)

Cheers,
Wol

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-12 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1cf0d18c-2f63-6bca-9884-9544b0e7c54e.ref@aim.com>
2020-08-24 17:23 ` Linux raid-like idea Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-08-28 15:31   ` antlists
2020-09-05 21:47     ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-05 22:42       ` Wols Lists
2020-09-11 15:14         ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-11 19:16           ` antlists
2020-09-11 20:14             ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-12  6:09               ` Song Liu
2020-09-12 14:40               ` Adam Goryachev
2020-09-12 16:19               ` antlists
2020-09-12 17:28                 ` John Stoffel
2020-09-12 18:41                   ` antlists [this message]
2020-09-13 12:50                     ` John Stoffel
2020-09-13 16:01                       ` Wols Lists
2020-09-13 23:49                         ` Brian Allen Vanderburg II
2020-09-15  2:12                           ` John Stoffel
     [not found]                             ` <43ce60a7-64d1-51bc-f29c-7a6388ad91d5@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>
2020-09-15 18:12                               ` John Stoffel
2020-09-15 19:52                                 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2020-09-15  2:09                         ` John Stoffel
2020-09-15 11:14                           ` Roger Heflin
2020-09-15 18:07                             ` John Stoffel
2020-09-15 19:34                               ` Ram Ramesh
2020-09-14 17:19                 ` Phillip Susi
2020-09-14 17:26                   ` Wols Lists
2020-09-15 11:32       ` Nix
2020-09-15 18:10         ` John Stoffel

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