On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Chris Allen wondered:
> Nix wrote:
>> There is a third alternative which can be useful if you have a mess of
>> drives of widely-differing capacities: make several RAID arrays so as to
>> tesselate
>> space across all the drives, and then pile an LVM on the top of all of them
Nix wrote:
On 25 Jun 2006, Chris Allen uttered the following:
Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided to split the storage
into four partitions each of 3TB. This way I can choose between XFS
and EXT3 later on.
So now, my options are between the following:
1. Single 12TB /dev/md0, p
On 25 Jun 2006, Chris Allen uttered the following:
> Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided to split the storage
> into four partitions each of 3TB. This way I can choose between XFS
> and EXT3 later on.
>
> So now, my options are between the following:
>
> 1. Single 12TB /dev/md0, par
Gordon Henderson wrote:
I use option 2 (above) all the time, and I've never noticed any
performance issues. (not issues with recovery after a power failure) I'd
like to think that on a modern processor the CPU can handle the parity,
etc. calculations several orders of magnitude faster than the
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Chris Allen wrote:
> Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided to split the storage
> into four partitions
> each of 3TB. This way I can choose between XFS and EXT3 later on.
>
> So now, my options are between the following:
>
> 1. Single 12TB /dev/md0, partitioned int
Chris Allen wrote:
Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided to split the storage
into four partitions
each of 3TB. This way I can choose between XFS and EXT3 later on.
So now, my options are between the following:
1. Single 12TB /dev/md0, partitioned into four 3TB partitions. But how
Chris Allen wrote:
2. Partition the raw disks into four partitions and make
/dev/md0,md1,md2,md3.
But am I heading for problems here? Is there going to be a big
performance hit
with four raid5 arrays on the same machine? Am I likely to have dataloss
problems
if my machine crashes?
2 shoul
use LVM, that way you can resize the volumns
-- Original Message ---
From: Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:37:01 +0100
Subject: Multiple raids on one machine?
> Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided
Back to my 12 terabyte fileserver, I have decided to split the storage
into four partitions
each of 3TB. This way I can choose between XFS and EXT3 later on.
So now, my options are between the following:
1. Single 12TB /dev/md0, partitioned into four 3TB partitions. But how do
I do this? fdisk
