On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: >> >> On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >>>>> - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning >>>>> that quite frankly don't make sense like rootfs on raid4, raid5 or >>>>> raid6. OK maybe raid5. But not raid 4 or raid 6. There are other >>>> >>>> Okay, I'll bite. Why not rootfs on raid6? >>> >>> It's pathological. There are too many simpler, faster, more resilient options considering rootfs at most isn't bigger than the average SSD: Two or three SSDs + n-way mirroring. RAID 10. Or RAID 1 + linear + XFS for deterministic workloads. >> >> Those three examples are simpler, more resilient, easier to configure and maintain, perform better, with faster rebuild times than RAID 6 which also has a high read-modify-write penalty. I left that part out. > > yes, but RAID6 allows a disk-fault *while* rebuild the RAID after the first one > RADID 10 *may* do the same if the *right* second disk fails If you need two disk failure tolerance use n-way mirroring with three disks, anaconda supports this. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
