The raid10 name is very misleading. I came to the same conclusion
yesterday: for sake of clarity I will make two raid1 arrays and combine
them into a raid0 ;)
Thanks for all info.
BR,
Rafal.
2014-04-08 8:49 GMT+02:00 Christopher Chan <christopher.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>:
> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 03:47 AM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
> > As far as I know raid10 is ~ "a raid0 built on top of two raid1" (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_1.2B0 - raid10).
> So I
> > think that by default in my case:
> No, Linux md raid10 is NOT a nested raid setup where you build a raid0
> on top of two raid1 arrays.
>
> >
> > /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6 form the first "raid1"
> > /dev/sdd6 and /dev/sdc6 form the second "raid1"
> >
> > So is it so that if I fail/remove for example:
> > - /dev/sdb6 and /dev/sdc6 (different "raid1's") - the raid10 will be
> > usable/data will be ok?
> > - /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6 (the same "raid1") - the raid10 will be not
> > usable/data will be lost?
> The man page for md which has a section on "RAID10" describes the
> possibility of something is absolutely impossibe with a nested raid1+0
> setup.
>
> Excerpt: If, for example, an array is created with 5 devices and 2
> replicas, then space equivalent to 2.5 of the devices will be available,
> and every block will be stored on two different devices.
>
> So contrary to this statement: "RAID10 provides a combination of RAID1
> and RAID0, and is sometimes known as RAID1+0.", linux md raid10 is NOT
> raid1+0. Is something entirely new and different but unfortunately
> called raid10 perhaps due to it being able to create a raid1+0 array and
> a different layout using similar concepts.
>
>
> >
> > I read in context of raid10 about replicas of data (2 by default) and the
> > data layout (near/far/offset). I see in the output of mdadm -D the line
> > "Layout : near=2, far=1" and am not sure which layout is exactly used and
> > how it influences data layout/distribution in my case :|
> >
> > I would really appreciate a definite answer which partitions I can remove
> > and which I cannot remove at the same time because I need to perform some
> > disk maintenance tasks on this raid10 array. Thanks for all help!
> >
>
> If you want something that you can be sure about, do what I do. Make two
> raid1 md devices and then use them to make a raid0 device. raid10 is
> something cooked up by Neil Brown and but is not raid1+0.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_MD_RAID_10#LINUX-MD-RAID-10
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