>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Berteaud [mailto:dani AT firewall-services DOT com]
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 3:57 PM
>To: sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se; General list for user discussion,
>questions and support
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] OT: New backup server with 6TB disk space
>
>> How does the LVM do if I need it to be a raid0-array. Does it even care?
>> Before I've always added partitions the "old-fashioned way" with
>> fstab-entries, you "/dev/md0 /bak" etc.
>
>You just have to create LVM on top of the RAID:
>
>pvcreate /dev/md0
>vgcreate backups /dev/md0
>lvcreate -n backuppc -L5To backups
>
>Now, you can format /dev/backups/backuppc as if it was a "standard"
>partition.

Nice, thanks!


>Ext4 is faster than ext3 with both small and big files, so I'd choose
>ext4.

Ok, looking into it some more then, ext4 and zfs. I've already used ext4 on a 
test-laptop and on my PVR I have at home (both via OpenSUSE). It seems to be 
doing good, but I've never tried ext4 out in some more "serious" scenarios.

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/Sorin

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