On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 12:00, Derek Vadala wrote: > On 10 Oct 2002, Stephen Lee wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to an example of how to create a raid10 with 4 scsi > > drives using mdadm? I have created raid1 and raid5 using mdadm so it's a > > matter of getting the md device naming and grouping correct. This is for > > a Redhat7.3 box. > > First create each of the mirrors: > (dont forget to susbstitute the proper SCSI devices for your system) > > mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > mdadm -Cv /dev/md1 -l1 -n2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 > > Now create a RAID-0 that uses /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 as its component > disks: > > mdadm -Cv /dev/md2 -l0 -n2 /dev/md0 /dev/md1 > > So your RAID-10 is at /dev/md2 and it contains the mirror member arrays > /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. > > Don't forget that you need to start /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 before you can > start /dev/md2. > Thanks Derek. Couple of questions. First, do I specify the assembly of the devices in the kernel parameters as follows (using Grub)? kernel /vmlinuz ro md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 md=1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1 \ md=3,/dev/md0,/dev/md1 root=/dev/md3 Does the above line satisfy the requirement for md0 and md1 be started before md3? Second, could I do a non-raid install on /dev/sda first and then build the raid10 array with /dev/sda failed and then adding it back in later? I only have 4 drives. Thanks again for your help, Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html