Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024A52E0119 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:30:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42028-06 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:30:27 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from oxford.xeocode.com (87-127-95-198.no-dns-yet.enta.net [87.127.95.198]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4104E2E0114 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:30:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=oxford.xeocode.com) by oxford.xeocode.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JbmCA-0001aU-Ej; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:30:18 +0000 To: Cc: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" , "Craig Ringer" , Subject: Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql In-Reply-To: (david@lang.hm's message of "Tue\, 18 Mar 2008 13\:01\:28 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Draft-From: ("nnimap+mail01.enterprisedb.com:INBOX" 71109) References: <8fb205ea0803152311n2c950758g253f4cefd20cff7d@mail.gmail.com> <47DCBD63.9050109@postnewspapers.com.au> <4544e0330803171101g680ffa5bj8ac32908a9f3dfb5@mail.gmail.com> <8fb205ea0803171139h63b55fdrf62776851583a74d@mail.gmail.com> <4544e0330803172026h3eae59a1u8914bda1a5a95bb5@mail.gmail.com> <47DF9278.70605@postnewspapers.com.au> <87bq5blsr6.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> From: Gregory Stark Organization: EnterpriseDB Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:30:18 +0000 Message-ID: <87wsnzk12d.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/388 X-Sequence-Number: 29342 writes: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Gregory Stark wrote: > >> You can have as many parity drives as you want with RAID 5 too. > > you can? I've never seen a raid 5 setup with more then a single parity dirve > (or even the option of having more then one drives worth of redundancy). you > can have hot-spare drives, but thats a different thing. > > what controller/software lets you do this? Hm, some research shows I may have completely imagined this. I don't see why you couldn't but I can't find any evidence that this feature exists. I could have sworn I've seen it before though. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support!