On 4/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Agar</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel@agar.ca">daniel@agar.ca</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I found those posts after some quick googling, but I wasn't sure if<br>anything had changed as fc3 was mentioned.<br><br>I suppose my options for software raid 5 are<br>-taking my chances with jfs or xfs<br>-recompiling my kernel
<br>-using ext3<br><br>I'm seriously considering going with ext3, as I don't think slow deletes<br>will really be an issue for me. My array is 4 x 320GB PATA drives.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Daniel,<br>I have an Athlon 64 3000+ running Fedora Core 6 i386 with (4) Samsung 250GB drives connected to my Gigabyte onboard (NForce4) SATA-II ports. I created a 10GB RAID-1 on the first two drives for the OS, then the rest of the drives (all 4) are RAID-5. The first 10GB on drive 3 and 4 is for OS partition-to-partition backups I do before a major distro upgrade (I recently moved from FC4 to FC6).
<br><br>I cannot give you an exact number of MythTV jobs I can run at once on this setup, but I can tell you the RAID-5 easily handles 25MB/sec writes. I had a GigE connection between it and my wife's Windoze PC (single SATA drive) and I moved some home videos to the Myth RAID-5 at that speed (over SMB). I believe the bottleneck was the single drive in the Windoze PC.
<br><br>/Brian/<br>