[CentOS] parted usage

Wed Jan 12 01:34:33 UTC 2011
aurfalien at gmail.com <aurfalien at gmail.com>

On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume
>> which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so
>> total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS..
>
> I don't know the answer to your parted question, but let me be the  
> first
> of many to express horror at the idea of using RAID-5 for such a large
> volume with so many spindles, even with a hot spare. The rebuild  
> times are
> probably going to be days, and the chance of a second spindle  
> failure in
> that time is high enough to make it dangerous. Use RAID-6 at least.

Hi Steve.

I went with Raid 6 + spare.

I'll force a failure (that is, once I get past my parted issue) and  
let you know rebuild times.

- aurf