I am about to implement a ~100 GB RAID-5 array using Linux software
RAID-5 and I have two questions I was hoping I could find answers to here
:)
1) Journaling
Access speed is not terribly important in this instance but minimizing
fsck time on reboot is somewhat important. It will be a mostly read-only
environment but I'd like to not have to mount the volume as RO.
Are any of the journaled file systems that are available for Linux
compatible with the RAID system yet? (Or, perhaps more accuratly, is
software raid compatible with journaling). Is anyone running journaling
with software RAID?
2) Resizing RAID volumes
I recall seeing once quite a while ago information regarding resizing of
RAID volumes (as in, adding additional active drives) that stated RAID 0
resizing was functional, but not RAID-5. Does anyone know if any progress
been made on this front or if anyone is working on it at all? I did some
searching with google, but didn't find anything that really answered my
question.
Thanks.
Sean
