Stephan Austermuehle wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:21:50PM +0100, jon+lvm@silicide.dk wrote: > > > hmm, that would need 130T/0.146T = 890 disks. And running raid 5... > > Please have a look at the following links. A single HDS Lightning > (aka HP XP 1024) can address up to 1,024 disks. > > http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/products/disk_arrays/highend/xp1024/index.html > > http://www.hds.com/products/systems/9900v/ nice, imagien all that porn ;-D > > personaly i dont like raid5, because if you loose more than one disk > > your data are gone, and with this ammount of disks, i expect failure > > rather often. (it's proberly not one big raid5 array, but that just > > makes it need more disks). > > I prefer RAID 1 (or RAID 10), too, but sometimes one has to use RAID 5. > A common strategy is to put a higher number of hot spare drives in one > system. Another (somewhat newer) strategy is to use two rotating parity > drives per RAID set. 2 rotating parity disks ? Can you elaborate on how that works ? I have thought about using something else than raid5, where you would split the data across a number of disks, AND use a mirrored device for storing the parity on. JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
