I wondered about btrfs too, but I'm not sure it is really ready...
Anton
On 3 Feb 2013 15:45, "James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???> wrote:
> On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst <timb@???>
> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up
> > existing data) to help out a local company between Andover and
> Stockbridge. If
> > anyone is able to help, let me know and I'll put you in touch. I have
> given
> > the enquirer some basic details on RAID, and advised that he doesn't
> move to a
> > windows server, as per last part of thier e-mail.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim B.
> >
> > Original Message below:
> >
> > To: chairman@???
> >
> > Hi Tim
> > I wonder if you could help us. Do you know anyone who could configure a
> > Suse RAID 5 Array on a fairly old machine so that we can increase the
> > disk sizes?
> > We are a small video company between Andover and Stockbridge
> >
> > Details are -
> > We have a Tyan 2892 mb in a 16 X HD server chassis. We only use it as a
> > place to keep our very large video file back ups. It connects by gigabit
> > ethernet to our Win 7 work stations. (We have to have Windows to run
> > Adobe production software)
> >
> > It has 16 HD including a sys drive, some office data (which we can put
> > anywhere else) and 12 X 750 Gig of video files in a RAID 5 array
> > We want to change 6 HDs initially with 2TB HDs. At present most the data
> > is already copied off.
> >
> > We had thought our one year old version of Suse and our RAID controller
> > (unknown to us at present) would enable us to upgrade one disk at a time.
> > Failing that we would configure two arrays, one to hold the new disks
> > and one to use the rest of the existing ones.
> >
> > The Suse and server have run faultlessly for several years.We have had 2
> > or 3 single failed HDs that get replaced and re-stripe/restore RAID 5
> > data with no problems.
> >
> > We cannot find a local Linux person to call on for occasional support so
> > were thinking we should move to Windows - but we don`t really want to
> > although we are ourselves reasonably proficient with Windows (started
> > before XP now on Win 7 - 6 work station PCs.
> >
>
> I would be curious what people recommend as the solution.
> btrfs might be good here, because it allows expansion easily
>
> James
>
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