On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 07:47:10PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
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> Maybe I'm not quite understanding right, however you can easily do RAID6 
> with 4 drives. That will give you two redundant, effectively give you 
> RAID5 if I drive fails, and save buttloads of messing around...

Steven, My friend has a server where the drives take up to a third of
a second to respond. When asking for help, everybody pounced on us:
- NEVER use raid5 for a server doing small-file-io like a mailserver.
  (always use RAID10). 

So apparently RAID5 (and by extension RAID6) is not an option for some
systems.

I'm willing to tolerate the RAID4 situation during the time that it
takes me to replace the drive.

	Roger. 

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