From: Chris Allen <chris@photobox.co.uk>
To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3?
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:00:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <449AF6FB.4010809@photobox.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0606222014210.21158@lion.drogon.net>
Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Chris Allen wrote:
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have a Linux storage server containing 16x750GB drives - so 12TB raw
>> space.
>>
>
> Just one thing - Do you want to use RAID-5 or RAID-6 ?
>
> I just ask, as with that many drives (and that much data!) the
> possibilities of a 2nd drive failure is increasing, and personally,
> wherever I can, I take the hit these days, and have used RAID-6 for
> some time... drives are cheap, even the 750GB behemoths!
>
>
Each of these boxes has an equivalent mirror box - so I'm happy with using
raid5 for the time being.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-22 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 19:11 Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3? Chris Allen
2006-06-22 19:16 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-06-22 19:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-22 19:58 ` Chris Allen
2006-06-22 20:00 ` Chris Allen [this message]
2006-06-23 8:59 ` PFC
2006-06-23 9:26 ` Francois Barre
2006-06-23 12:50 ` Chris Allen
2006-06-23 13:14 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-06-23 13:30 ` Francois Barre
2006-06-23 14:46 ` Martin Schröder
2006-06-23 14:59 ` Francois Barre
2006-06-23 15:13 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-23 15:34 ` Francois Barre
2006-06-23 19:49 ` Nix
2006-06-24 5:19 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-24 7:59 ` Adam Talbot
2006-06-24 9:34 ` David Greaves
2006-06-24 22:52 ` Adam Talbot
2006-06-25 13:06 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2006-06-28 3:45 ` I need a PCI V2.1 4 port SATA card Guy
2006-06-28 4:29 ` Brad Campbell
2006-06-28 10:20 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-28 11:55 ` Christian Pernegger
2006-06-28 11:59 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-06-29 18:45 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-28 19:38 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-28 12:12 ` Petr Vyskocil
2006-06-25 14:51 ` Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3? Adam Talbot
2006-06-25 20:35 ` Chris Allen
2006-06-25 23:57 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-26 0:42 ` Adam Talbot
2006-06-26 14:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-24 12:40 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-26 0:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-26 8:06 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-06-23 15:17 ` Chris Allen
2006-06-23 14:01 ` Al Boldi
2006-06-23 16:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-23 16:41 ` Christian Pedaschus
2006-06-23 16:46 ` Christian Pedaschus
2006-06-23 16:46 ` Christian Pedaschus
2006-06-23 19:53 ` Nix
2006-06-23 16:21 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-06-23 18:19 ` Tom Vier
2006-06-27 12:05 ` Large single raid... - XFS over NFS woes Dexter Filmore
2006-06-23 19:48 ` Large single raid and XFS or two small ones and EXT3? Nix
2006-06-25 19:13 ` David Rees
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