On 8/16/2012 5:11 PM, vincent Ferrer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 8/15/2012 9:56 PM, vincent Ferrer wrote: >> >>> - My storage server has upto 8 cores running linux kernel 2.6.32.27. >>> - I created a raid5 device of 10 SSDs . >> >> No it is not normal practice. I 'preach' against it regularly when I >> see OPs doing it. It's quite insane. >> >> There are a couple of sane things you can do today to address your problem: >> >> Stan >> > > Hi Stan, > Follow-up question for 2 types of setups i may have to prepare: > 1) setup A has 80 SSDs. This is simply silly. There's no need for exaggeration here. > 2) Setup B has only 12 SSDs. Question: Is it more practical to > have only one raid5 device, even though I may have 4-5 physically > different clients or create 2 raid5 devices each having 6 SSDs. As I repeat in every such case: What is your workload? Creating a storage specification is driven by the requirements of the workload. -- Stan -- 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
