[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

Karl Leaning mythtv at objectivity.co.nz
Mon Jun 15 09:16:15 BST 2009


Umm, no with raid 5, you lose a drive not the data. add a new drive 
"rebuild" the set and continue as normal...

I have three 500GB drives in a raid-5 set. The server is a myth back-end 
and a file server (and mysql server) also so I care about the data. 
Frankly I don't care that much about the TV recordings (though I am 
happy about the side affect of uptime the raid set gives) but having 
down time would cause problems with WAF!

For a file system I have just used plain old ext3.

Criggie wrote:
> If you raid5, then you loose a drive worth of storage, and remember its
> only TV.  Not your critical personal data.
>
>   




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