From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Michael Fritscher <michael@fritscher.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended filesystem for RAID 6
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:45:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5F32F56C.7040603@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a7bfca8-af6e-cbd1-0dc4-feaf1a0288be@fritscher.net>
On 11/08/20 20:19, Michael Fritscher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you really want to use these tiny 2 TB HDDs - yes, RAID 6 (2x - the
> second for the backup system on a physically different location) is a
> good choice.
>
> But: If you can, buy some 8-12 TB HDDs and forget the old rusty tiny
> HDDs. You'll save a lot at the system - and power.
>
I'm looking at one of these ...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST8000DM004-Barracuda-internal-Silver/dp/B075WYBQXJ/ref=pd_ybh_a_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WF1CTS2K9RWY96D1RENJ
Note that it IS a shingled drive, so fine for backup, much less so for
anything else. I'm not sure whether btrfs would be a good choice or not ...
> ext4 is fine. In my experience, it is rock-solid, and also fsck.ext4 is
> fairly qick (don't know what Roy is doing that it is so slow - do you
> really made a full-fledged ext4 with journal or a old ext2 file system?^^)
>
> Another way would be deploying zfs with raid-z2 (Yes, I can hear the
> screams :-D )
>
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-11 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-11 4:42 Recommended filesystem for RAID 6 George Rapp
2020-08-11 15:06 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2020-08-11 19:19 ` Michael Fritscher
2020-08-11 19:45 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2020-08-22 1:31 ` David C. Rankin
2020-08-22 7:25 ` Peter Grandi
2020-08-22 9:38 ` Wols Lists
2020-08-22 19:21 ` Chris Murphy
2020-08-22 19:04 ` Chris Murphy
2020-08-22 18:50 ` Chris Murphy
2020-08-22 19:54 ` Kai Stian Olstad
2020-08-22 23:50 ` antlists
2020-08-12 14:07 ` Nix
2020-08-11 15:22 ` antlists
2020-08-11 16:23 ` Roman Mamedov
2020-08-11 18:57 ` Reindl Harald
2020-08-11 19:33 ` Roman Mamedov
2020-08-11 19:49 ` Rudy Zijlstra
2020-08-11 20:13 ` Roman Mamedov
2020-08-11 20:17 ` Reindl Harald
2020-08-11 20:12 ` Reindl Harald
2020-08-11 22:14 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2020-08-12 14:16 ` Nix
2020-08-12 14:41 ` Roman Mamedov
2020-08-12 20:44 ` Peter Grandi
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