Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:46:33 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs Message-ID: <20051229104633.A581@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <A899314F-91B5-4280-931A-C905B6337A6C@netmusician.org>; from joe@netmusician.org on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:12:02AM -0500 References: <B302EFD3-19ED-43B5-B4AD-07BDCF9273A9@netmusician.org> <43B3F341.5030906@mac.com> <A899314F-91B5-4280-931A-C905B6337A6C@netmusician.org>
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Joe Auty wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:12:02AM -0500: > Some great advice here! > > What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard > disk space I have available? This is just my personal backup machine > and will consist of two drives, so I don't need kick ass performance, > and I don't need my files mirrored. I take it that striping is what I > need to look at? RAID-0? Can I setup striping without reformatting, > or only mirroring? Why do you want to RAID in first place then? RAID-0 is the only option that doesn't lose space, but it increases your risk for the benefit of performance. Since you don't need performance there is no point in taking the risk, much less the bootstrapping hassle. You cannot convert existing filesystems to raid without first moving the data somewhere. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/
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