Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: <david(at)lang(dot)hm>
Cc: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Craig Ringer" <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What is the best way to storage music files in Postgresql
Date: 2008-03-18 19:46:53
Message-ID: 87bq5blsr6.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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<david(at)lang(dot)hm> writes:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18/03/2008, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>>> Isn't a 10 or 24 spindle RAID 5 array awfully likely to encounter a
>>> double disk failure (such as during the load imposed by rebuild onto a
>>> spare) ?
>
> that's why you should use raid6 (allowing for dual failures)

You can have as many parity drives as you want with RAID 5 too.

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