Re: making a huge fileserver
Am 2006-10-01 20:55:09, schrieb Hernán Freschi:
> The question is: What are the possibilities for growth on that array? I
> read that it is not easy to add more disks to a RAID-5, but that is just
> what I want. Suppose I buy 3 320GB disks making a 640GB array. Then I
> fill that up and just buy a new drive, grow the array, and grow the XFS
> filesystem. Is that possible/stable/secure/production-ready?
NO, if you have e.g. a bunch of 3 HDD'S and want to extend it,
you need a second bunch of at least 3 HDD's and attach it to
the first one using LVD.
> Google suggested this: www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/LVM_on_RAID
> But I think it's not what I want. I think the article says that I can
> add more ARRAYS to the LVM. That is, every time I want to add a new
> drive I'd need to buy 3 more. Is that so?
Right
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