Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:47:30PM +0100, Peter Rabbitson wrote:
Michael Tokarev wrote:
With 5-drive linux raid10:
A B C D E
0 0 1 1 2
2 3 3 4 4
5 5 6 6 7
7 8 8 9 9
10 10 11 11 12
...
A&B can't be removed - 0, 5. A&C CAN be removed, as
are A&D. But not A&E - losing 2 and 7. And so on.
I see. Does the kernel code allow this? And mdadm?
And can B+E be removed safely, and C+E and B+D?
It seems like it. I just created the above raid configuration with 5 loop
devices. Everything behaved just like Michael described. When the wrong drives
disappeared - I started getting IO errors.
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