robinbowes;648735 Wrote: > Any reason in particular you want to use btrfs? I don't think it does > RAID5 yet - just 0,1,10. (I'm no expert). > > I'd be looking at mdadm (to create a RAID device) and probably LVM on > top of that, then use ext3/4. > > R.I'm even less of an expert. If there's one thing that slimdevices really excels at, it's encouraging purchases of ever larger hard disks as we all grow our music libraries. Consequently, I found myself with a stack of 3 no-longer-used 1T drives. I thought I would softraid them in my linux development machine and use it as backup storage. Since this is an old and slow machine, I thought that stripping away some of the device layers might be a good idea. Having btrfs do it all seemed neat and easy. That said and after a little more investigation, I think you're right and I'll need to go back to mdadm & raid 5. But I don't understand what sandwiching LVM under ext4 would get me. I'm not questioning the wisdom of this...I just don't understand.
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