On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm about to create a new storage pool with lots of disk and six > > drives. Does anyone have an opinion about either creating one huge > > filesystem for the storage pool or creating the filesystem as RAID 1? > > What OS? > > For storage, why raid 1 instead of 5? > > > On AIX, I'd recommend raid 5 on whatever granularity makes sense, > (half-drawer, whatever fits in the chassis, etc.) and then no filesystem at > all: raw logical volumes have a great deal to recommend them. > > > - Allen S. Rout >
Sorry about the raid1, I meant raid0 (striping). I'm on AIX 5.2. Mike
