Am 2006-10-01 20:55:09, schrieb Hernán Freschi:
> The question is: What are the possibilities for growth on that array? I
> read that it is not easy to add more disks to a RAID-5, but that is just
> what I want. Suppose I buy 3 320GB disks making a 640GB array. Then I
> fill that up and just bu
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Hernán Freschi wrote:
> Scott Reese wrote:
>> Greetings Hernan:
>>
>> You can, in theory, expand a software array and expand the filesystem
>> one it. We have tried it with Debian Etch, and it worked. However, it
>> took forever. It took almost 40 h
Hernán Freschi wrote:
Well... the problem is, of course, where do I put 1TB of data while I
add the new disk :). I was thinking of just take the risk and do it. I
was trying to get a tape backup unit. Tapes for 400/800GB are cheap,
the problem is getting the tape backup unit. I saw some on ebay
Scott Reese wrote:
Greetings Hernan:
You can, in theory, expand a software array and expand the filesystem
one it. We have tried it with Debian Etch, and it worked. However, it
took forever. It took almost 40 hours to to go from 1.2TB to 1.8TB.
Time required to backup the entire filesystem to
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On 10/01/06 18:55, Hern?n Freschi wrote:
> Hi folks, I know this may be not the right place to ask, but I thought
> I'd give it a try.
>
> I'm trying to build a fileserver. A small, but extensible one. I plan to
> start with 500GB and grow from there.
Hi folks, I know this may be not the right place to ask, but I thought
I'd give it a try.
I'm trying to build a fileserver. A small, but extensible one. I plan to
start with 500GB and grow from there. Obviously, I want redundancy, so I
want it to be a software RAID. I don't care too much abou
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