David Rees wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (Mostly) agreed. If you can afford a hardware raid controller, raid 5 is a >> good choice. >> > > To clarify, a hardware raid controller with battery backed RAM is a > good choice fo RAID 5, otherwise it will either be very slow for small > random writes or run the risk of data corruption. > > -Dave > > And creating directory entries very much counts as small random writes and BackupPC does a lot of that.
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