On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 06:15:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
I wouldn't use Ext3 for a device that big. Why can't you use ZFS?
yep, for disks and array that size, error-detection and correction are essential. which means either zfs or btrfs.
I'm using BTRFS for all my backups nowadays so any data corruption will be flagged.
how's the raid5 support in btrfs now? last i read (back in june, iirc) it was still very experimental. one of the problems i read about was that you couldn't replace a failed drive in a raid5 btrfs. btrfs raid-0/1/10 modes work fine - and btrfs does offer a way of auto-converting an array from raid1 to raid5/6, so starting with raid10 and converting to raid5 when its "ready" may be a safer choice. or zfs, with the -dkms packages available for most distros, installing zfs and setting it up is easy. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>