On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Francois Barre wrote: > 2006/1/5, berk walker <berk@xxxxxxxxx>: > [...] > > > > > > > > Ext3 does have a fine record. Might I also suggest an added expense of > > 18 1/2% and do RAID6 for better protection against data loss? > > b- > > > > Well, I guess so. I just hope I'll be given enough money for it, since > it increases the cost per GB. Anyway I guess that it is preferable > than a raid5 + 1 spare. If you've got a spare, you might as well use it (IMO!) > By the way, not really a raid-oriented question, but what is the exact > robustness of ext3 resizing ? I mean : what happens if the box crashes > while resizing an ext3 ? > This implies, of course, resizing capabilities for raid6, which is not > implement yet. Is it ? No personal experience. I build servers for a purpose and when time comes to expand it, I build another! Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
