Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: >> The Fedora installer has insisted on requiring four drives for raid-10 >> install, and then not using raid-10, but rather raid-1+0 which is >> *NOT* the same thing. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Nested_levels ah, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels See the Linux MD RAID 10 section. (or man md, if you'd prefer) It is still (at its most basic) effectively RAID 1+0, but doesn't require an even number of disks and can do some funky things with layout and number of (near or far) copies of each chunk. this is what mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 10 -n4 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d}1 would do, for example. As opposed to manually creating 2 mirrors and striping over them. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines