[Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LVM and cciss

[Tethys]

Dale Gallagher writes:

>Have been through the various RAID scenarios and RAID 1+0 has been the
>plan from the start; RAID 5 is too slow.  Even though I lose 50% using
>RAID 1+0, I get the best of speed and reliability, which is one of my
>fundamental requirements, taking prescedence over number of disks used.

Speed is a red herring in all but a few rare cases. Redundancy is far
more important to pretty much everyone. Few people are maxing out their
disks for any sustained period of time.

Tet
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