Monday, October 29, 2012

Re: [BLUG] RAID-like redundancy for a linux?

amahi has an interesting option called grey-hole.
it uses multiple drives and writes data to all drives, but each drive
is readable outside of this pool

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Jeremy L. Gaddis <jlgaddis@gnu.org> wrote:
> * Ben Shewmaker <ben@shewbox.org> wrote:
>> solutions like ZFS out there that I can use? That is, is there some
>> software solution that allows creating a pool of disks that will take
>> care of data redundancy and be able to recover from a drive failure?
>
> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid
>
>> Also, does using different capacity disks make this a much harder
>> challenge?
>
> Identical drives are best, but you can use drives of different size.
>
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