On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Chris Allen wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a Linux storage server containing 16x750GB drives - so 12TB raw > space. Just one thing - Do you want to use RAID-5 or RAID-6 ? I just ask, as with that many drives (and that much data!) the possibilities of a 2nd drive failure is increasing, and personally, wherever I can, I take the hit these days, and have used RAID-6 for some time... drives are cheap, even the 750GB behemoths! > If I make them into a single RAID5 array, then it appears my only > choice for a filesystem is XFS - as EXT3 won't really handle partitions > over 8TB. I can't help with this though - I didn't realise ext3 had such a limitation though! 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
