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On Thursday 22 September 2005 19:26, Ron Bickers wrote: |
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> > For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 |
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> > combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. |
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> I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about |
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> it. |
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If you're planning on doing it in software, you might want to wait for 2.6.14, |
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or look at this bug: |
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5181 |
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> > Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? |
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> wasn't ideal. Earlier this year, I used XFS for several months on two |
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> servers and I liked it. However, through a bizarre series of power |
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> problems, I found parts of files wiped out with filler characters. That |
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> made me really nervous so I dropped it. |
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That's how XFS gets a lot of it's speed, by agressively caching data in RAM. |
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Power failures will cause all sorts of problems with it. |
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Mike Williams |
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