Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 4/5/20 3:50 pm, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 04.05.2020 um 02:46 schrieb Rich Freeman: >> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:50 PM hitachi303 >> wrote: >> ... > So you are right. This is the way they do it. I used the term raid to > broadly. > But still they have problems with limitations. Size of room,

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-04 Thread hitachi303
Am 04.05.2020 um 02:46 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:50 PM hitachi303 wrote: The only person I know who is running a really huge raid ( I guess 2000+ drives) is comfortable with some spare drives. His raid did fail an can fail. Data will be lost. Everything important has to

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-04 Thread hitachi303
Am 04.05.2020 um 02:29 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: Facebook used to store data which is sometimes accessed on raids. Since they use energy they stored data which is nearly never accessed on blue ray disks. I don't know if they still do. Reading is very slow if a mechanical arm first needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Monday, May 4, 2020 3:19 AM, antlists wrote: > On 03/05/2020 22:46, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 3, 2020 6:27 PM, Jack ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > curious. how do people look at --layout=n2 in the > > storage industry? e.g. do they ignore the > > optimistic

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Monday, May 4, 2020 2:50 AM, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 03.05.2020 um 23:46 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: > > > so, in summary: > > /\ > > | a 5-disk RAID10 is better than a 6-disk RAID10 | > > | ONLY IF your data is WORTH LESS than 3,524.3 | > > |

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 6:27 PM, Jack wrote: > Minor point - you have one duplicate line there ". f  f ." which is the > second and last line of the second group.  No effect on anything else in > the discussion. thanks. > Trying to help thinking about odd numbers of disks, if you are still >

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:50 PM hitachi303 wrote: > > The only person I know who is running a really huge raid ( I guess 2000+ > drives) is comfortable with some spare drives. His raid did fail an can > fail. Data will be lost. Everything important has to be stored at a > secondary location. But

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:52 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was > > just caught shipping unadvertised SMR in WD Red disks. This is going > > to at the very least impact your

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread antlists
On 03/05/2020 22:46, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: On Sunday, May 3, 2020 6:27 PM, Jack wrote: curious. how do people look at --layout=n2 in the storage industry? e.g. do they ignore the optimistic case where 2 disk failures can be recovered, and only assume that it protects for 1 disk

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:16 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:29 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I've used the WD Reds and WD Golds (no not sold) and never had any problem. > > > > Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was > just caught shipping

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread hitachi303
Am 03.05.2020 um 23:46 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: so, in summary: /\ | a 5-disk RAID10 is better than a 6-disk RAID10 | | ONLY IF your data is WORTH LESS than 3,524.3 | | bucks. |

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 5:32 PM antlists wrote: > > On 03/05/2020 21:07, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I don't think you should focus so much on whether read=write in your > > RAID. I'd focus more on whether read and write both meet your > > requirements. > > If you think about it, it's obvious that

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For > example, Seagate Barracudas are very popular desktop drives, but I guess > maybe HALF of the emails asking for help recovering an array on the raid > list involve them

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread antlists
On 03/05/2020 21:07, Rich Freeman wrote: I don't think you should focus so much on whether read=write in your RAID. I'd focus more on whether read and write both meet your requirements. If you think about it, it's obvious that raid-1 will read faster than it writes - it has to write two

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread antlists
On 03/05/2020 18:55, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, Wols Lists wrote: For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For example, Seagate Barracudas are very popular desktop drives, but I guess maybe HALF of the emails asking for help recovering

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:29 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > I've used the WD Reds and WD Golds (no not sold) and never had any problem. > Up until a few weeks ago I would have advised the same, but WD was just caught shipping unadvertised SMR in WD Red disks. This is going to at the very least impact

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:44 AM Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > * RAID 1: fails to satisfy points (1) and (3)... > this leaves me with RAID 10 Two things: 1. RAID 10 doesn't satisfy point 1 (read and write performance are identical). No RAID implementation I'm aware of does. 2. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 10:56 AM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > > > For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For > > example, Seagate Barracudas are very popular desktop drives, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Dale
Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > >> For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For >> example, Seagate Barracudas are very popular desktop drives, but I guess >> maybe HALF of the emails asking for help recovering an array on

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Jack
On 5/3/20 1:44 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: [snip]... so, we get the following combinations of disk failures that, if happen, we won't lose any data: RAID0 --^-- RAID1 RAID1 --^-- --^-- F . . . < cases with

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:14 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > > Q3: what are the future growth/shrinkage > > options for a RAID10 setup? e.g. with > > respect to these: > > > > 1. read/write speed. > > > > iirc far is good for speed. > > > 2. tolerance guarantee towards failing > >disks. >

[gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - i'm to setup my 1st RAID, and i'd appreciate if any of you volunteers some time to share your valuable experience on this subject. my scenario --- 0. i don't boot from the RAID. 1. read is as important as write. i don't have any application-specific scenario that

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/05/20 08:53, hitachi303 wrote: > Nothing you asked but I had very bad experience with drives which spin > down by themselves to save energy (mostly titled green or so). Good catch! For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For example, Seagate Barracudas are very

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/05/20 06:44, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > hi - i'm to setup my 1st RAID, and i'd appreciate > if any of you volunteers some time to share your > valuable experience on this subject. > > my scenario > --- > > 0. i don't boot from the RAID. > > 1. read is as important as

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread hitachi303
Am 03.05.2020 um 07:44 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: * RAIDs 4 to 6: fails to satisfy point (3) since they are stuck with a fixed tolerance towards failing disks (i.e. RAIDs 4 and 5 tolerate only 1 disk failure, and RAID 6 tolerates only 2). As far as I remember