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I am using raid 5 1 spare disk without any problem on centos 5.6 EDV Daniel M?ller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 T?bingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de Internet: www.tropenklinik.de Von: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] Im Auftrag von Uwe Kastens Gesendet: Montag, 8. August 2011 08:55 An: Gluster-users at gluster.org Betreff: [Gluster-users] HW raid or not Hi, I know, that there is no general answer to this question :) Is it better to use HW Raid or LVM as gluster backend or raw disks? Regards Uwe
We use raw disks with our setup. Gluster takes care of the replication part, so RAID would be useless for us. Performance wise, you are better off just adding a new brick and let gluster do the rest. Best regards, Gabriel On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Uwe Kastens <kisteorg at googlemail.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I know, that there is no general answer to this question :) > > Is it better to use HW Raid or LVM as gluster backend or raw disks? > > Regards > > Uwe > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > >
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Uwe Kastens wrote:> Hi, > > I know, that there is no general answer to this question :) > > Is it better to use HW Raid or LVM as gluster backend or raw disks?HW Raid.><>Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com