On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 08:04 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday April 25, rikherrin@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a setup where I want to use RAID 1 to mirror > > my data over the LAN. I am exposing 2x500 GB-sized > > devices via iSCSI and was wondering if I could > > configure the RAID 1 to write to both members of the > > RAID 1 configuration but only read from one as one only read from one disk, shall this be a "--read-preferred" ? i checked email archive, but still not quite understand on this "--write-mostly". for raid1, u anyway need to write all components, so why there is a "mostly"? > > link is 1GbE while the other is lower but sufficient > > for writing. Is this possible? Thanks for your help. > > You'll be wanting the '--write-mostly' option to mdadm. > This requires a fairly recent kernel and mdadm. > > NeilBrown > - > 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 - 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
