[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On 17-Feb-09, at 2:08 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:

> Linux software raid works fine and I use this recipe
> http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Partitioning_RAID_/_LVM_on_RAID
> 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.

Rob,

So are you using 4 drives, and making two different raid 1 (2 drives  
each), then joining them via LVM?

d



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