Use the linux software raid first. Gluster is best used between servers as an additional level of raid. If I remember your setup correctly it would be best to do a linux software raid 5 then mirror with another server for redundancy. -Mic On 9/24/2010 3:51 AM, Jeremy Enos wrote: > Hardware being best, what's better between software and gluster? > > On 9/23/2010 10:55 PM, Craig Carl wrote: >> 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 <about:blank> (California, USA) >> Office - (408) 770-1884 <about:blank> >> Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com >> Twitter - @gluster >> Installing Gluster Storage Platform, the movie! >> <http://www.youtube.com/user/GlusterStorage> >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users --
