Re: [lopsa-tech] software raid under linux

[Paul Graydon]

On 12/23/2010 08:18 AM, Andrew Hume wrote:
> we (some folks at work) have built two backblaze boxes
> (roughly speaking, a linux box with 45 2TB drives).
>
> i think i know how to deploy such a beast, but wanted to check
> my understanding, which is that mdadm is the tool of choice,
> and that for performance and reliability, raid10 is the sweet spot
> (specificly, not RAID5).
>
> does anyone have anything specific to say about mdadm,
> and the raid it produces, either good or bad?
>
I've not specifically dealt with it, but would a slightly more targetted 
distribution be of value?  It is OpenBSD rather than Linux, though. 
http://freenas.org/FreeNAS
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