[PLUG] Raving mad RAID

carl day carl0spamday at gmail.com
Tue Feb 2 20:28:40 UTC 2021


I have used F2FS for years on my SSD drives. [F2FS ALWAYS benchmarks FASTEST fs]
There is an option in mkfs.f2fs -c  ,  that can make use of upto 7
drives as ONE LARGE DRIVE.
Have 7 240G [do not have to be same size] as one /dev in one of my large boxes
 i use archlinux, YMMV

On 2/2/21, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> And one more thought: I'd consider LVM instead of RAID0. But whatever
>> system I set up, I need the four 7.68TB NVMe drives to appear as one
>> big-ass 31TB drive.
>
> John,
>
> That's what LVM does. You have four physical drives. They can be collected
> into virtual groups any way you want, including all four in one group. Then
> each group (one in your case) can be divided into as many logical volumes
> as
> you want ... one in your case.
>
> That's the way I set up my Mediasonic 4-bay NAS. I now have a single 8TiB
> volume available.
>
> The process is a bit different from preparing a new drive (hard or solid
> state), but one of the URLs I sent lays them out step-by-step.
>
> So, should you choose to once again dip your toes in the LVM waters you'll
> find plenty of help here to keep them toes warm.
>
> Keep on truckin',
>
> Rich
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