>>> I got a SMART error email yesterday from my home server with >>> a 4 x 1Tb RAID6. [ ... ] >> That's an (euphemism alert) imaginative setup. Why not a 4 >> drive RAID10? [ ... ] > The main reason is the easy ability to grow the RAID6 to an > extra drive when I need the space. I've just about allocated > all of the array to various VMs and file storage. One thats > full, its easier to add another 1Tb drive, grow the RAID, grow > the PV and then either add more LVs or grow the ones that need > it. That's indeed an (euphemism alert) audacious plan. It has all the popular ideas that I consider very brave indeed: RAID6, LVM2, growing arrays in-place, growing filesystems in-place, and of course VM images on top (following the usual logic I guess that they will be sparse). It has been my misfortune to see much the same audacious plan setup by optimistic predecessors in a few workplaces, and then having to turn that plan into a less brave one in a hurry when it ended up as it would. But at least in your case it is just a home setup. -- 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
