Hello, I am building a file server that will store mostly raw images from my digital camera (~ 8 to 11 MB in size) their associated metadata (6 kb) and my library of documents (mostly PDF) and I'm looking for some tuning suggestions. I will have 3x750Gb hard drives in RAID-5 plus a separate OS drive and I plan to create a single md device out of the storage drive then split it up with LVM then create XFS file systems for different types of data. I searched google for half a day and I'm getting preciously few hard suggestions for my kind of setup. Most folks have many more drives in a hardware raid. Others say to use the defaults, but last time when I used the defaults I ended up with 64kb MD chunk sizes and 32 blocks stripe width (instead of 128). Should I worry about configuring the LVM block/extent sizes to match the MD and XFS? Any hints would be really appreciated! Thanks, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090505/3e987a2b/attachment.pgp