Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
yoyo64 wrote: > Hi > > I use internal metadata, for my resources > Is it the best choice for big amount of datas ? > What is the limit ? > Why to choice external With external metadata you obtain the flexibility to use two levels of RAID, since metadata on RAID5 can slow all operations down. The fastest and still quite safe setup I use is metadata on raid1 and the large block devices on raid10. YMMV. For the conversion question you have, please wait for someone else to answer that. Goodluck, Leroy