[kwlug-disc] Filesystems for backups

[Paul Nijjar]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:57:37PM -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
> 


> 2) For individual drives bigger than 2TB, I think RAIDZ2 is a
> requirement. Especially with used HDDs.

Why this? Is raidz as opposed to raidz2 too risky because of the
rebuild times?


> 3) Can your drive shelf handle drives with 4K sectors?? I tend to doubt
> it.? In that case, you will probably never use a drive >4TB in your array.

I don't know yet. I should probably investigate.


- Paul