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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: turbo@weasel.com
Subject: Re: nested raid possible?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:57:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468DF5F1.8010004@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468DD806.6070608@ieee.org>

Simon Valiquette wrote:
> turbo@weasel.com un jour écrivit:
>> I have a raid-5 array of six 250gb hard drives.
>> I just bought four 500gb hard drives.

Simon raised some sensible points.

Also consider a raid5 of the 4x500 drives and using LVM to join them to a raid 5 
of the 6x250s

The benefit using raid0 to join the 250s may be that you can replace each of the 
2x250 with 1x500 as time passes. In that case you may want a raid6 made of :
  500 500 500 500 250+250 250+250 250+250

One thing I'd ceertainly suggest is creating partitions of 498Gb to allow for 
geometry variations....

David
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06  3:38 nested raid possible? turbo
2007-07-06  5:49 ` Simon Valiquette
2007-07-06  7:57   ` David Greaves [this message]
2007-07-07 14:12 ` Bill Davidsen

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