Subject: Re: Raid 5, xfs or reiserfs
From: Joshua Kugler (jk@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 11:57:01 AKST
No, 200*3 - 200 = 400. It needs one extra drive since it is spreading parity
information across drives.
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:54 am, volz wrote:
> 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)
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> out of three ide drives.
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> >Would either reiserfs or xfs be better than ext3?
> >
> >What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three for this
>
> application?
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> >- Karl
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