On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 06:15:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > I wouldn't use Ext3 for a device that big. Why can't you use ZFS?
yep, for disks and array that size, error-detection and correction are essential. which means either zfs or btrfs. > I'm using BTRFS for all my backups nowadays so any data corruption will be > flagged. how's the raid5 support in btrfs now? last i read (back in june, iirc) it was still very experimental. one of the problems i read about was that you couldn't replace a failed drive in a raid5 btrfs. btrfs raid-0/1/10 modes work fine - and btrfs does offer a way of auto-converting an array from raid1 to raid5/6, so starting with raid10 and converting to raid5 when its "ready" may be a safer choice. or zfs, with the -dkms packages available for most distros, installing zfs and setting it up is easy. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
