Technically speaking, I prefer the LVM2 solution on which you can make and resize partitions on the fly.
I must admit I lost my raid5 with LVM2. The cause will probably have been my fault, although I don't know what I did wrong, so I suggest if you have critical data, a backup on another medium is still advised.
Good luck.
Bernhard Aurélien Gouny wrote:
Hi all,
I have a Promise SX6000 card and i juste have bought 6x160 GB HDs that make a 800 GB RAID-5 array.
I was wondering wich filesytem I should use (ext3/reiserfs/xfs/jfs/...), if I should make one or more partitions and wich stripe block size to use knowing that:
- it will be mainly a file-server with mp3s, divx, pictures (1 to 4MB each) and some files (openoffice, ...) all shared with Samba.
- it will have a small postgresql database
If someone need more information in order to determine the stripe block size or else, just ask ;)
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