Jeremy - The absolute best would be hardware RAID. If that isn't an option mdadm (linux) is your better choice. Thanks, Craig -- Craig Carl Sales Engineer; Gluster, Inc. Cell - ( 408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Office - ( 408) 770-1884 Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com Twitter - @gluster Installing Gluster Storage Platform, the movie! http://rackerhacker.com/2010/08/11/one-month-with-glusterfs-in-production/ From: "Jeremy Enos" <jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:13:25 PM Subject: linux raid0 vs gluster raid0 Suppose I've got 5 disks in a system connected to my IB network, and I want to host a Gluster filesystem on it for max I/O (large block, multiple client). Should I raid0 the 5 disks at the linux level, or the gluster level? thx- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
