On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning >>> that quite frankly don't make sense like rootfs on raid4, raid5 or >>> raid6. OK maybe raid5. But not raid 4 or raid 6. There are other >> >> Okay, I'll bite. Why not rootfs on raid6? > > It's pathological. There are too many simpler, faster, more resilient options > considering rootfs at most isn't bigger than the average SSD: Two or three > SSDs + n-way mirroring. RAID 10. Or RAID 1 + linear + XFS for deterministic > workloads. Those three examples are simpler, more resilient, easier to configure and maintain, perform better, with faster rebuild times than RAID 6 which also has a high read-modify-write penalty. I left that part out. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
