LVM or FS:EXT3?

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Fri Aug 31 21:56:51 UTC 2007


Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:21 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>   
>>> Care to elaborate on that last statement?  Are you talking about the disks
>>> themselves or the IDE interface or ????  If "IDE" disks are unreliable then
>>> what disks are reliable?
>>>       
>> The disks themselves. I've yet to meet a reliable disk, ever year or two
>> one dies on me.
>>     
    I think the real question is, how many disks do you have?

Out of a hundred say one dead every year would not be too bad. This 
Western Digital ide is 6 years old.


>
> Do you leave them spinning all the time or spin them up and down?
> We don't have issues like that, but we never shut down our servers
> except when we must perform maintenance.  It's the spinup-spindown-
> spinup cycles that kill the bearings (heat up, cool down, heat up
> again).
>
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