On Monday 04 March 2002 04:49 pm, lembark@wrkhors.com wrote: > -- "Anthony W. Marino" <anthony@AWMObjects.com> on 03/04/02 16:39:10 -0500 > > > Any thoughts or articles that would be usefull in determining the quality > > on the following combination would be greatly appreciated: > > > > LVM 1.x > > 3Ware 7800 Raid Controller > > Maxtor 40GB harddrives > > XFS Journalling FS > > SuSE 2.4.18+ Linux > > Striped LVM on RAID5 is a nice, flexable way to go. > If you set the individual raid stripes at an I/O page > (normally 4K on linux) and then stripe across the > PV's the I/O gets spread nicely across plenty of paths. > Using a stripe == I/O size avoids the "write penalty" in > RAID5, the Raid Controller and drives do a nice job of > buffering and the whole thing should work nicely. Do you recommend any particular kernel release? Where could I find good instructions on putting it all together? Thank You, Anthony _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
