From: Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:53:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA624D9.2000209@f_philipp.fastmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1003201126lca5c835s1eb613f9509aa282@mail.gmail.com>
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Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH <gentoo-user@konstantinhansen.de> wrote:
>> Mark Knecht schrieb:
>>>
>>
> <Smiling broadly...> :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe
> keeps me happy. :-)
>
> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB
> green drives. Now I just need to decide what sort of RAID to use. I
> don't need much speed writing so I'm thinking maybe a 3 drive RAID1
> setup with a hot spare managed using mdadm and then LVM on top of it.
>
With 4 drives, you could build a RAID-6, too. It's like a RAID-5 but
protects against failure of any two drives.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-19 22:40 [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions Mark Knecht
2010-03-20 13:22 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-20 18:29 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-21 12:18 ` KH
2010-03-20 16:38 ` KH
2010-03-20 18:26 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-21 12:12 ` KH
2010-03-22 15:51 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-22 17:34 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-21 13:53 ` Florian Philipp [this message]
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