Re: [Xen-users] Cheap IOMMU hardware and ECC support importance

[lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nuno MagalhÃes <nunomagalhaes@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:29 AM, lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's simple with RAID because the disk either fails or not.  It's
>> usually simple with disks because it either fails or not.
>
> Depends on your RAID, depends on your disks. If you use disks without
> TLER they may get kicked out of the array even if they're not failing.

That brings back the question of when a disk has actually failed.
Should I continue to entrust my data to a disk that spends long times on
trying to correct errors?  Should I use it as a spare for a RAIDZ-1
volume and hope that it might be helpful?


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