On Fri, January 23, 2009 16:33, Blake wrote: > Assuming that you have any storage structure with more than just a > single giant dir, it's probably simplest to use mirrors. You can get > 1.5tb drives now :) > > I would not stripe mirrors, because that adds complexity. It's easy > enough to have 2 shares, like 'music' and 'pictures' and have each be > a 1.5tb mirror.
I throw multiple mirrors into a single pool. Then the music filesystem comes out of that pool, and my peronal filesystem (mostly photos) comes out of that pool. So the free space isn't pre-divided between uses. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
