Jeremy - Your best bet is mdadm, the Linux software RAID solution. ZFS is also an option on Solaris, OpenSolaris. Thanks. -- Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com From: "Jeremy Enos" <jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: "Craig Carl" <craig at gluster.com> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:51:30 AM Subject: Re: linux raid0 vs gluster raid0 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 (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
