dnk wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently setting up a server that will house my backups (simply > using rsync). > > This system has 4 X 500 gb drives and I am looking to raid for max > drive space and data safety. Performance is not so much a concern. > > My experience with software raids in nil, so some of these may seem > like pretty dumb questions. > > I was thinking a raid 1 is probably sufficient. > > Would it be best to raid 1 two drives each and LVM them together? > > My next question would be about how to do this as I have never done a > linux software raid. > > D > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090217/f66c8b3f/attachment-0005.vcf>