On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Hiren Joshi <josh at moonfruit.com> wrote: > > > We went with 36 partitions (on a single raid 6 drive) incase we got file > system corruption, it would take less time to fsck a 100G partition than > a 3.6TB one. Would a 3.6TB single disk be better? Have you looked at using XFS for a filesystem? Its a journaling filesystem and should almost require no rebuild/check in a crash. liam