On Thursday, April 14, 2011 01:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 04/13/11 9:51 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I'm was stuck trying to decide whether to go for the cheaper RAID 5 setup and possibly getting killed by the IOPS penalty and the risk associated with rebuild time, or figure out a way to use the recommended RAID 10 setup with a smaller usable capacity for the budget but do so with the ability to expand in the near future. So really hoping that it could be done.
since this is the centos list, I really didn't want to suggest this, but if I was building a 20 or 40TB or whatever storage server, I do believe I'd be strongly consider using Solaris, or one of its variants like OpenIndiana, with ZFS.
Special cases warrant exemption.
I, too, run OpenIndiana...
Use the right tool for the job.