> Are you using hardware RAID or software RAID? It sounds like you intend > to use software RAID. It doesn't really change much, though.
The Fileserver has 3 hardware RAID cards with onboard cache. All discs are SCSI. > If you don't actually want RAID functionality, you can use LVM to glue > all the disks together into one big virtual disk. That sounds like your > goal. Mind you, I'm a big fan of actually using RAID if I have enough > disks lying around to do it. I have an 8 x 18GB RAID5 myself. The main crux of the question is, I guess, whether it would be better to use the RAID 0 of the hardware RAID card to glue the discs, then create little partitions for use with LVM or to use LVM to stripe across the JBOD discs.. Would using the discs as hardware RAID 0 with say 10gig partitions be quicker than using LVM to stripe across the discs set up as JBOD? > Are you optimizing for write speed, read speed, or a balance? Is > redundancy not worth any speed reduction? As it is a fileserver I think a balance would be best. Redundancy is not a major issue, I have backups, however, if it doesn't impact too much I may consider RAID 5 for the data arrays. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
