Re: raid

[Shawn Everett <shawn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 27 May 2007, CentOS List wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 4 x 500GB PATA Harddisk and I like to have them striped and
> mirrored. What is the best practise? Raid 0+1 or 1+0.. And how do i go
> about it?
>

Raid 1 and then Raid 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

Read the sectioon on RAID 1+0

Given:
sda
sdb
sdc
sdd

Set up md0 (Raid1) (sda,sdb)
Set up md1 (Raid1) (sdc,sdd)

Set up md2 (Raid0) (md0,md1)

Of course given the chance a hardware raid is better. :)

Shawn
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