> > The box presents 48 drives, split across 6 SATA controllers. > So disks sda-sdh are on one controller, etc. In our > configuration, I run a RAID5 MD array for each controller, > then run LVM on top of these to form one large VolGroup. > I might be missing something here, and I realise you'd lose 8 drives to redundancy rather than 6, but wouldn't it have been better to have 8 arrays of 6 drives, each array using a single drive from each controller? That way a single controller failure (assuming no other HD failures) wouldn't actually take any array down? I do realise that 2 controller failures at the same time would lose everything. Steve. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1286 - Release Date: 18/02/2008 18:49 - 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
