On Sunday 17 May 2015 21:36:57 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-05-17 um 18:05 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Maybe I will. I suspect dodgy disks and I have a pair of new SSDs on the > > way. Perhaps it's time for a rethink. > > perhaps one more thought to be thought right now:
(I overlooked this at the time.) > skip mdadm and lvm ... and try btrfs as you have the chance on shiny new > hardware I also have a spare external hard disk, which I could experiment with for snapshots etc. > less layers, more features ... I definitely recommend giving this a try. I do like the idea of having fewer layers and less complication. I'm doing a bit of reading while awaiting the bits - the SSDs are here; all I need now is the mounting brackets. > tl;dr ... maybe you listed some reason to stick with mdadm/lvm2/xfs etc > ... sorry in that case No, it's just what I have at the moment. -- Rgds Peter