On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:56:01AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > I found a sentence in the HOWTO: > > > >"raid1 and raid 10 always writes all data to all disks" > > > >I think this is wrong for raid10. > > > >eg > > > >a raid10,f2 of 4 disks only writes to two of the disks - > >not all 4 disks. Is that true? > > > > I suspect that really should have read "all mirror copies," in the > raid10 case. OK, I changed the text to: raid1 always writes all data to all disks. raid10 always writes all data to the number of copies that the raid holds. For example on a raid10,f2 or raid10,o2 of 6 disks, the data will only be written 2 times. Best regards Keld - 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
