[mythtv-users] Disk Arrangement and LVM + JFS

[Andrew Burgess]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 23:33 -0400, John Drescher wrote:

> > If reliability is your thing consider RAID 6.  Rebuild times are pretty long
> > for RAID 5 when you use large drives, and that's on top of the time it takes
> > you to source and install a new drive. During that time you're vulnerable to
> > a second failure.
> >
> Only problem raid 6 would not make sense with his drives. I mean a 4
> drive raid 6 is pretty silly. Your better off with raid 10 in that
> case.

I think the code just went into the kernel to grow a raid 5 into a raid
6 so you can switch to 6 after you add a few drives and they get cheap
enough to 'waste' another one on parity.