From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.de>
Cc: Dieter N?tzel <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>,
Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>,
reiserfs-list <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: NFS setup for a reiserfs-based /home
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:51:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925175128.A3477@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020925154626.S32363@noris.de>
Hello!
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:46:27PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > > I'll suggest RAID5 (4 or more disks plus 1 or more spare) for all your
> > > storage.
> > RAID5 is CPU hungry on writes, also writes are slower compared to RAID1.
> ... on the other hand, you need fewer disks than with RAID1. ;-)
On the third hand, in RAID1 setup with N disks I won't mind failure of
N-1 disks. ;)
> Anyway, reasonably fast hardware RAID controllers do exist, so this isn't
> necessarily a problem.
This is just matter of truest, if you trust the binary closed source firmware
from such a device, that it will handle failures and this kind of stuff
correctly, go for it.
With Linux' softraid paranoid people can verify their own worst assumptions by
just reading source code ;)
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 21:57 NFS setup for a reiserfs-based /home Javier Marcet
2002-09-25 7:40 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 13:33 ` Dieter Nützel
2002-09-25 13:37 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 13:46 ` Matthias Urlichs
2002-09-25 13:51 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2002-09-25 14:09 ` Matthias Urlichs
2002-09-25 14:24 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 18:25 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] ` <3D920F90.7060206@edsons.demon.nl>
2002-09-25 20:37 ` Hans Reiser
2002-09-25 15:48 ` bscott
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