Re: Raid 5, xfs or reiserfs


Subject: Re: Raid 5, xfs or reiserfs
From: Arthur Corliss (acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 12:10:38 AKST


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, 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?

Ballpark, that is correct. Parity information is striped across all member
disks, and is equivalent to one drive in size.

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