<david(at)lang(dot)hm> writes:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18/03/2008, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>>> Isn't a 10 or 24 spindle RAID 5 array awfully likely to encounter a
>>> double disk failure (such as during the load imposed by rebuild onto a
>>> spare) ?
>
> that's why you should use raid6 (allowing for dual failures)
You can have as many parity drives as you want with RAID 5 too.
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