On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:22:56PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday January 3, ewan.grantham@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I've setup a RAID-5 array using two internal 250 Gig HDs and two > > external 250 Gig HDs through a USB-2 interface. Each of the externals > > is on it's own card, and the internals are on seperate IDE channels. > > > > I "thought" I was doing a good thing by doing all of this and then > > setting them up using an ext3 filesystem. > > Sounds like a perfectly fine setup (providing always that external > cables are safe from stray feet etc). > > No need to change anything. Except that Peter says that the ext3 journals should be on separate non-mirrored devices and the reason this is not mentioned in any documentation (md / ext3) is that everyone sees it as obvious. Whether it is true or not it's clear to me that it's not obvious to everyone.
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