[Dovecot] Better to use a single large storage server or multiple smaller for mdbox?

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-04-11 4:48 PM, Adrian Minta <adrian.minta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/12 19:50, Ed W wrote:
>> One of the snags of md RAID1 vs RAID6 is the lack of checksumming in
>> the event of bad blocks. (I'm not sure what actually happens when md
>> scrubbing finds a bad sector with raid1..?). For low performance
>> requirements I have become paranoid and been using RAID6 vs RAID10,
>> filesystems with sector checksums seem attractive...

> RAID6 is very slow for write operations. That's why is the worst choice
> for maildir.

He did say '"For *low* *performance* requirements..." ... ;)

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Best regards,

Charles