<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17-Feb-09, at 2:08 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Linux software raid works fine and I use this recipe<br><a href="http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Partitioning_RAID_/_LVM_on_RAID">http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Partitioning_RAID_/_LVM_on_RAID</a><br>If you can afford a proper hardware raid controller for raid 6, that would be of better performance than linux software raid, other than that I have found performance of linux based md using raid 1 to work fine.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Rob,</div><div><br></div><div>So are you using 4 drives, and making two different raid 1 (2 drives each), then joining them via LVM?</div><div><br></div><div>d</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>