On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:11:59 +0000
Bob McElrath <bob@mcelrath.org> wrote:

> http://superuser.com/questions/387851/a-zfs-or-lvm-or-md-redundant-heterogeneous-storage-proposal/388536
> 
> In a nutshell: organize your heterogenous disks into two "halves", the sum of
> which are of roughly equal size, and create a raid1 array across those two
> halves.

This seems to be an extremely simplistic concept and also a very inefficient
use of storage space, while not even providing enough redundancy (can't
reliably tolerate an any-two-disks failure even).

I suggest that you go with http://linuxconfig.org/prouhd-raid-for-the-end-user
instead. Depending on how many drives you have, the widest portion can be raid
6, then decreasing to RAID5 for the second stage, then finally to RAID1 for
the tail.

Also remember that with MD you can also create arrays from arrays. So e.g. a
RAID0 of two 500GB members can join a RAID6 of 1TB members. More on this idea:
http://louwrentius.com/blog/2008/08/building-a-raid-6-array-of-mixed-drives/

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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