raid and lvm with 8 disks....suggestions?

[Ruben Laban]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> How does it sounds a system like this:
> 4 disks in raid 10 for the database and the main system
> 4 disks in raid5 (one spare) for the file server
>
> Could it be a good compromise between performance and security?
> About LVM, at least it is possible to build another small array with
> additional disks, thus I could add with LVM such disks (of course in the
> space of the file server)....
>
> What do you think?

Sounds like a fairly decent solution to me.

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