From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NtLbZ-0004Ik-Cf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:54:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D710E0795; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D139E0795 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08A5E8369; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:53:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:53:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=9UElZfnEshZiVbLUiwi+Asxlb8E=; b=n4gjwMfxtovr7X5zndwsR7+dDsnauATO6S1BRA5IKSjUdjxei0SoIEEa9XBED90FfCwJgubJff9RLDPrHoF6yDOueTln+SpAYGUTGsOpZ+B8Ucgc2NnoTu+SJjtB0p3Czc2A0SHi3zi+8e61pfVUL/cEygLr/IQg5TnD9rpkby4= X-Sasl-enc: IbI3iCilUO4p0bwXkFMv5aguAI1ojkQqKBO6pi/fTVLp 1269179615 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A7DC4B432D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4BA624D9.2000209@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:53:29 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100313 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions References: <5bdc1c8b1003191540i5928eb4em5f8704b2db9fc046@mail.gmail.com> <4BA4F9FB.4050603@konstantinhansen.de> <5bdc1c8b1003201126lca5c835s1eb613f9509aa282@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1003201126lca5c835s1eb613f9509aa282@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig28FF7D2DC6513A965FBE547D" X-Archives-Salt: bdaf81fd-f180-4407-b7ae-bce2350451cf X-Archives-Hash: 9c1e2596ec8e9260eb9ac6ea425c24fd This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig28FF7D2DC6513A965FBE547D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH w= rote: >> Mark Knecht schrieb: >>> >> > :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe > keeps me happy. :-) >=20 > 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. >=20 With 4 drives, you could build a RAID-6, too. It's like a RAID-5 but protects against failure of any two drives. --------------enig28FF7D2DC6513A965FBE547D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkumJN8ACgkQqs4uOUlOuU/fCgCeN9T2DMISD6hWS8Me9OkJqstw tcAAn22BOLTVM/M0IR4dICq6k6r66j99 =s1KG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig28FF7D2DC6513A965FBE547D--