"Simon Baxter" <linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Anyway, I've bought 3x 1.5 TB SATA disks which I'd like to put into a > software (mdadm) raid 5 array. [...] > But does anyone have any production VDR experience with mdadm - good or bad? If you like good performance and simple recovery, then do not use RAID5. Use RAID1 instead. I use RAID5 only because I am too lazy to buy some new and larger disks for my VDR at the moment :-) I have had serious performance-problems with parallel recordings and some Linux-background-jobs (like system-backup). I solved it by raising the I/O-priority of vdr with ionice: ionice -c2 -n0 vdr -w 120 -v $VIDEODIR -d -t /dev/tty5 -g /tmp ... Stephan. -- loescher@xxxxxx http://www.loescher-online.de/ Try LEO: http://www.leo.org/ _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
