Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-20 Thread Corey Shields
On Sunday 20 November 2005 06:49 am, Lares Moreau wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:29 -0700, Duncan wrote: > > If the capacity is there, go RAID6 (dual parity RAID5, so two drives can > > drop out without the thing dieing) with a hot-spare as well, so > > threex146GB usable. > > Is RAID6 productio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:49:11 -0700 Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:29 -0700, Duncan wrote: | > If the capacity is there, go RAID6 (dual parity RAID5, so two | > drives can drop out without the thing dieing) with a hot-spare as | > well, so threex146GB usable. | |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-20 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:29 -0700, Duncan wrote: > If the capacity is there, go RAID6 (dual parity RAID5, so two drives can > drop out without the thing dieing) with a hot-spare as well, so > threex146GB usable. Is RAID6 production ready? -- Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LRU: 400755 http://

[gentoo-dev] Re: implementation details for GLEP 41

2005-11-20 Thread Duncan
Robin H. Johnson posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:44:41 -0800: > The 6x146GB is overkill for storage, unless you have some other plans > that I'm not aware of (I'm assuming RAID5 with a hot-spare, so 4x146GB > usable). 6x72GB might be more suitable for the budge