Everyone:
Thanks for all your input.
I'm going to stick with the Promise ATA-133 controllers, as they are only $30
at www.newegg.com. Also I am using software RAID, the 3ware controllers that
I looked at were hardware RAID only and too expensive - I'd rather have more
storage space.
I'm planning to use RAID 0+1 with XFS on kernel 2.4.18 (or 2.4.19 if it's out
by the time our disks come in). If there's any other good patches that you'd
recommend for a server, let me know - I'm currently in the habit of running
mostly vanilla kernels on my servers (except for XFS of course ;).
Quick question for anyone with Linux software RAID experience: our RAID 0 will
be composed of two RAID 1s, md0 and md1. if we decide we need more storage,
is it easy to create another RAID 1 (md2) and add it to the stripe set? Or
would that require something like LVM (or even a re-format)?
Thanks again,
Ben
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