[TriLUG] Setting Up RAID-5
Lee Fickenscher
elfick at mac.com
Fri Dec 8 10:43:24 EST 2006
On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Brian Henning wrote:
> <snip>
> I didn't think of that straight away, but the easy solution would
> be to have
> the OS not stored on the array. Separate itty-bitty cheap HD for
> the OS.
> If it dies, who cares. Reinstall. Uptime is my bottom-most concern;
> throughput (on read moreso than write) and data integrity/safety
> are top, in
> that order.
>
> <snip>
> Yeah, but as I said in #1 above, uptime isn't nearly so big a
> concern. If
> the machine crashes, oops. I don't imagine ever writing "live" to
> the array
> (meaning any critical write operations, such as writing while
> sounds are
> being recorded, will be to the workstation, then backed up to the
> RAID --
> system crashes during write during backup, just copy the file
> again), and a
> crash during a read would be a nuisance but less of a nuisance than
> losing
> all the data. It's not like a sudden-death crash is going to
> (hopefully) be
> any more frequent than the sudden-death itself.
If uptime and performance aren't really a concern, why even bother
with raid?
Just get yourself a good backup solution and use LVM to maximize space.
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