Hi list, I'm a newbie to RAID, planning a home fileserver that will be pretty much my first real time using RAID. What I think I'd like to do is start w/ 3 drives in RAID5, and add drives as I run low on free space, eventually to a total of 14 drives (the max the case can fit). But when I add the 5th or 6th drive, I'd like to switch from RAID5 to RAID6 for the extra redundancy. As I've been researching RAID options, I've seen that RAID5 to RAID6 migration is a planned feature, but AFAIK it isn't implemented yet, and the most recent mention I found was a few months old. Is it likely that RAID5 to RAID6 reshaping will be implemented in the next 12 to 18 months (my rough guesstimate as to when I might want to migrate from RAID5 to RAID6)? Or would I be better off starting w/ 4 drives in RAID6?
I'm also interested in hearing people's opinions about LVM / EVMS. I'm currently planning on just using RAID w/out the higher level volume management, as from my reading I don't think they're worth the performance penalty, but if anyone thinks that's a horrible mistake I'd like to know sooner rather than later. And if anyone has comments on good hardware to consider or bad hardware to avoid, here's what I'm currently planning on getting: <http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=6134331> TIA, Conway S. Smith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
