Hi,

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Rik Herrin wrote:

>       1) OCE: Online Capacity Expansion:  From the latest
> version of mdadm (v2.2), it ssems that there is
> support for it with the -G option.  How well tested is

Well, we use LVM above raid, thins is not a big issue.

>       3) Performance issues:  I'm currently thinking of

I have some simple test with bonnie++, the sw raid superior to hw raid,
except big-name storage systems.
http://zeus.gau.hu/~lajbi/diskbenchmarks.txt

>       4) Would anyone recommend a certain hotswap
> enclosure?

We used ibm xseries and sun machines. The hotswap working well, but the
number of drives very limited.

Take a look at http://www.coraid.com : very well scalable, cheap storage.

Bye,
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