Roman Mamedov wrote on 09/14/2016 11:22 AM:
But you think an 11-member RAID5, let alone four of them joined by LVM is safe? From a resiliency standpoint that setup is like insanity squared.
yeah it seems fine? disks are healthy and regularly checked, just wondering how to check the spares. use cron to schedule weekly smartctl long test?
Considering that your expenses for redundancy are 8 disks at the moment, you could go with 3x15-disk RAID6 with 2 shared hotspares, making overall redundancy expense the same 8 disks -- but for a massively safer setup.
actually it would be 9 disks (3x15 +2 = 47 not 48) but i'm ok with that. but rebuilding the array right now is not an option
might just as well join them using mdadm RAID0 and at least gain the improved linear performance.
i did want to do that but debian-installer didn't seem to support it... -- 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
