Re: i thought RAID 5 had a stake through its heart

From: David Schwartz (davids_at_webmaster.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 02:24:39 -0700

"Ronald Cole" <ronald@forte-intl.com> wrote in message
news:m34qlkxnvw.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com...

> My understanding is that corruption can creep into a RAID5 system and
> you would be unaware of it.

    Corruption can creep into anything and you would be unaware of it.
However, in RAID5, it is trivial to tell if the data has been corrupted or
not, so if you look, you will definitely detect it. If you don't look, of
course you won't detect it.

    DS