On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 09:29:29 AM Matthew Feinberg wrote:
Thank you everyone for the advice and great information. From what I am gathering XFS is the way to go.
A couple more questions. What partitioning utility is suggested? parted and fdisk do not seem to be doing the job.
My suggestion is don't partition at all, use LVM.
Raid Level. I am considering moving away from the raid6 due to possible write performance issues. The array is 22 disks. I am not opposed to going with raid10 but I am looking for a good balance of performance/capacity.
Then try both for your use case and your hardware. We have wide raid6 setups that does well over 500 MB/s write (that is: not all raid6 writes suck...).
/Peter
Hardware or software raid. Is there an advantage either way on such a large array?