Re: Raid 5, xfs or reiserfs


Subject: Re: Raid 5, xfs or reiserfs
From: volz (volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 11:54:18 AKST


Another question from same source:

RH docs say the storage capacity is "equal to the capacity of member disks,
minus the capacity of one member disk."

So does that mean for three 200G drives, the volume is limited to under 400G?

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>Assume for the sake of discussion, I want to make a large raid 5 volume (~600G)
out of three ide drives.
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>Would either reiserfs or xfs be better than ext3?
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>What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three for this
application?
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>- Karl
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