On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 09:29:29 AM Matthew Feinberg wrote: > Thank you everyone for the advice and great information. From what I am > gathering XFS is the way to go. > > A couple more questions. > What partitioning utility is suggested? parted and fdisk do not seem to > be doing the job. My suggestion is don't partition at all, use LVM. > Raid Level. I am considering moving away from the raid6 due to possible > write performance issues. The array is 22 disks. I am not opposed to > going with raid10 but I am looking for a good balance of > performance/capacity. Then try both for your use case and your hardware. We have wide raid6 setups that does well over 500 MB/s write (that is: not all raid6 writes suck...). /Peter > Hardware or software raid. Is there an advantage either way on such a > large array?
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