From 08f8b2fb917abf5585b8d0c225dc3725bed838f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zooko <> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:44:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a suggested solution for Q8 [Imported from Trac: page FAQ, version 71] --- FAQ.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 01036e2..26c0d89 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ A: Not directly. Each storage server has a single "base directory" which we term A cleaner solution would be to use LVM instead, which can combine several physical disks (or loop devices consisting of common files) to a single logical volume. This logical volume can then be mounted or symlinked to `$BASEDIR/storage`. This also is a more flexible solution because new disks can then be added seamlessly to the volume with LVM. +Another clean solution is to run three tahoe-lafs storage server processes—one for each of your three drives. That's what the Tahoe-LAFS developers would do. + **Q9: Would it make sense to not use any RAID and let Tahoe-LAFS deal with the redundancy?** A: The Allmydata grid didn't bother with RAID at all: each Tahoe-LAFS storage server node used a single spindle.