> Thank you Richard for the update! > > Though with the recent performance drops of XFS on 2.6.3x kernels, and > the fact that the XFS patches are fairly new (and probably buggy), I'd > rather stay away from XFS for a while and look into other possible > options. If any... I hear what you are saying, but reformatting an array to a new fs is definitely a daunting prospect. I have a minor coronary every time I think of deliberately reducing the number of copies of my data from 2 to 1 while the array is re-formatted and the data copied back to the main array. This process takes long enough that the odds of encountering two drive failures on the RAID5 backup system during the copy are not infinitesimal... <sigh> I guess one of these days I am going to have to bite the bullet and build a *SECOND* backup system. I don't suppose I will ever breathe perfectly easy until I can have two completely independent systems fail and still not lose any data. That, or maybe Blu-ray disks will become cheap enough to create multi-terabyte backups on them. Right now, the best price I see is $112 a terabyte, and I can do substantially better than that using hard drives. Even if they do get cheaper than hard drives, the thought of swapping out 400+ Blu-Ray discs over a period of several days doesn't really thrill me. Maybe a cold hard drive backup is the answer? It eliminates most of the pitfalls of a Blu-Ray backup, can easily be overwritten, only requires a relative handful of discs, and costs less than $75 a terabyte. Hmmm... -- 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
