Re: Software based SATA RAID-5 expandable arrays?

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Why dontcha just cut all the "look how big my ePenis is" chatter and tell us 
> what you wanna do?
> Nobody gives a rat if your ultra1337 sound cards needs a 10 megawatt power 
> supply.

Chill Dexter.


How many faults have you seen on this list attributed to poor PSUs?
How many people whinge about the performance of their controllers/setups 'cos 
they find out _after_ they bought them just how naff they are?

Sure he went a bit OTT in the description - but if you'd rather see "Hey dudez, 
what do I need for a really quick server" then #linux is good :)

He's clearly new to linux, (and granted, maybe a bit over-excited by hardware!) 
but give the guy a break.

He very clearly told us what he wanted to do in the QUESTIONs bit.

greenjelly (btw most people use real names in the linux kernel part of the 
world), feel free to search the archives, read the FAQs and continue to ask 
questions :)

And don't think too badly of Dexter, he's usually OK.

David

PS, Dex, I wonder who posted these noobie sounding question in April last year:

I'm currently planning my first raid array.
I intend to go for softraid (budget's the limiting factor), not sure about 5
or 6 yet.

Plan so far: build a raid5 from 3 disks, later add a disk and reconf to raid6.
Question: is that possible at all? Can a raid5 be reconfed to a raid6 with
raidreconf?
Next Question: how stable is it? Will I likely get away without making backups
or is there like a 10% chance of failure?
Other precautions advised?