Re: graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-26 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Ter, 2011-07-26 às 08:48 +0200, DA Forsyth escreveu: > Hi all > > I am busy putting together a new server. I want to avoid using the > motherboards raid 'hardware' (intel matrix raid) and rather do it all > in software so if anything goes wrong with the motherboard, the > drives can work i

Re: graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:48 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > The advantage of using graid3 at this point is that the extra 1TB > drive I have can then go into the backup server which needs more > space anyway. > > Having suffered data loss on the previous raid5 (intel matrix) array > when UFS went banana

Re: graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 08:48, DA Forsyth wrote: Hi all I am busy putting together a new server. I want to avoid using the motherboards raid 'hardware' (intel matrix raid) and rather do it all in software so if anything goes wrong with the motherboard, the drives can work in some other box. I have 4x 1T

graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-25 Thread DA Forsyth
Hi all I am busy putting together a new server. I want to avoid using the motherboards raid 'hardware' (intel matrix raid) and rather do it all in software so if anything goes wrong with the motherboard, the drives can work in some other box. I have 4x 1TB drives available for the main data a