On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:11, Laurent CARON wrote: > Dan Stromberg a écrit : > > >Has anyone constructed a RAID 5 of RAID 5's using mdadm on a linux > >system? > > > >Was it reliable? > > > >How large was it? > > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > Seems to be a large waste of space.... > - Ya that does. I have done a RAID0 of 2 RAID5's. Or a RAID50. Work's great. I think a RAID5 of RAID5's is going to have some seriously slow write performance. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html