On Thursday 22 September 2005 19:26, Ron Bickers wrote: > > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 > > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. > > I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about > it.
If you're planning on doing it in software, you might want to wait for 2.6.14, or look at this bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5181 > > Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? > > wasn't ideal. Earlier this year, I used XFS for several months on two > servers and I liked it. However, through a bizarre series of power > problems, I found parts of files wiped out with filler characters. That > made me really nervous so I dropped it. That's how XFS gets a lot of it's speed, by agressively caching data in RAM. Power failures will cause all sorts of problems with it. -- Mike Williams -- [email protected] mailing list
