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color:blue'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tim Gibson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 18 June 2009 6:12 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> stephen@jsw.gen.nz; MythTV in NZ<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:blue'>&gt;</span>&nbsp;
Also unless you want a real performance hit I'd shy away from splitting your
1TB drive into 2 500G partitions and adding them into the same RAID array as
the <span style='color:blue'>&gt; </span>data would then be written to the same
physical drive twice.<br>
<span style='color:blue'>&gt;</span><br>
<span style='color:blue'>&gt; </span>p.s I'm now running ext4 on my main
storage drive, so far no problems... touch wood.<br>
<span style='color:blue'>&gt; </span><br>
<span style='color:blue'>&gt; </span>Tim<span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'>But each partition of a mirrored
pair is on a different disk. On the assumption that you are generally only
writing to one mirrored pair at a time there should be no &#8216;dual write&#8217;
issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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