On Feb 6, 2008 12:43 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you create a raid10 with one drive "missing" and add it later? I > know, I should try it when I get a machine free... but I'm being lazy today. Yes you can. With 3 drives, however, performance will be awful (at least with layout far, 2 copies). IMO raid10,f2 is a great balance of speed and redundancy. it''s faster than raid5 for reading, about the same for writing. it's even potentially faster than raid0 for reading, actually. With 3 disks one should be able to get 3.0 times the speed of one disk, or slightly more, and each stripe involves only *one* disk instead of 2 as it does with raid5. -- Jon - 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
