> Any parity RAID certainly starts to run into issues in this area. RAID-6 > is significantly safer than RAID-5 but will also reach a point where > it's no longer statistically viable. Higher parity options could be used > then - they're not currently supported by md, but there's been some ideas > floated over the last year or so. Non-parity RAID options (e.g. RAID-10) > are far safer in this respect but have a higher storage overhead. > > Manual duplication is unlikely to offer any practical advantages over > RAID-10 though (or layered RAID-1/RAID-0 if you prefer more control over > the layout). > Intuitively I'd think manual duplication would be a lot cheaper in terms of storage cost and scale a lot easier? >> > You cannot avoid the resync, so stop looking into weird options. The >> > resizing will take days. Thanks, I'm done looking ;-) -- 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
