Raid 5 versus 3 computer backup

[kristian.hermansen at gmail.com (Kristian Hermansen)]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:44:27, John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> wrote:
> Part of the fun in my case is that one of the three is an OSX system,
> which  has  a  case-insensitive file system.  This was a huge pain at
> first, but I'd had a few people try to use some of my stuff  on  OSX,
> and  they  failed.   So  I  went through the pain of hunting down and
> dealing with the problems.  I'd actually rather hunt down  and  shoot
> the  idiots  who  decided  to  inflict such a file system on the unix
> world, but that wouldn't be very legal, I suppose.

Isn't Leopard going to have ZFS support built in?  That would be amazing!

> I really should learn how to do RAID right, though ...

Have you played around with mdadm before?  Easy as checkers...
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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