I've used lvm on top of software raid before. Currently using bed and zfs with a raid-z2 setup with 4 drives. I kind of like the extra piece of mind knowing that zfs takes extra precautions against data corruption by check summing everything.
Only thing I may do different next time...get enterprise sata drives. This time I at least got the we red drives, which have some of the enterprise features, they're just slow. But, it's just my basement, I don't really NEED to be able to saturate Gigabit.... Oh, the only thing about zfs is that it loves memory...if you go that route, follow the best practices on amount of ram. I think mine has like 8gb and it works well. Doug On Jun 1, 2013 10:46 AM, "Matthew Goff" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone provide recommendations between LVM, ZFS, or some other > fancy filesystem for redundant home storage? Pros/cons? I've been > leaning ZFS on BSD but I honestly have never used either system. > > This would be for 4 HDDs sitting in a small desktop in my basement for > pictures, videos, music, etc...Just home file storage. Right now I'm > on two non-pooled older HDDs in the same box running ext4 on each with > primary data on 1 drive, duplicity mirrored (the critical parts) to > the second drive, and then the duplicity copies encrypted and uploaded > off-site. I'd like a little more survivability in-home, though. > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.prgmr.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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