[mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

John Andersen jsa at video.homelinux.org
Wed Apr 6 20:11:05 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:32 am, Milan Andric wrote:
> I'm basically stuck on the RAID.  Since I  do not have enough data
> *right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5,  I'd like to just buy two
> drives now and use mdadmin to
> setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes 

Bad idea.
Raid 5 runs quite a bit slower when its degraded (missing drives).
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