On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Craig Curtin <craigc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You do not want to do raid 5 with any sort of VMs - search the archives from > last week or two for one other persons experience - start up and Shutdown > will kill you - also power loss if no ups (and you have not mentioned > having one) I found [1] pertaining to a RAID6 array with very slow boot times. However, the VMs in question were file-based VirtualBox VMs, whereas i want to use LVM-based Xen VMs. I assume Xen will perform better, or will it perform less badly if i go for RAID5? I also saw RAID10,f2 mentioned [2] as being a good solution for desktop systems, which is my case (the first days will be atypical as i gradually copy stuff onto the array, but then it'll be mostly reads as far as data goes, with read/writes for VMs). I hadn't looked into this type before, how does it compare to RAID5 in terms of space? It seems that, for 3x 1TB disks, both would provide 2TB of space +1TB of parity (or mirrorred redundancy). Is this correct? Regards, Nuno [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=140163840103389&w=2 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=140153409328161&w=2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_MD_RAID_10#Linux_MD_RAID_10 -- 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
