On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:56:38PM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Richard Michael > <rmichael-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Re-reading what I wrote, it's a mess of typos. :) But, yes, I want to > > remove half the disks on a regular basis, as off-site storage, and return > > them to the array for periodic resync. > > Basically what you want is a raid 51. > 2x RAID5 (4 disks each) mirrored to form a RAID1. Exactly. Have you built such a config and managed to get the system booting from the nested RAID1 (perhaps even with LVM inside)? This is where I am having difficulty. Else, I'll just create an 8-way RAID1 of 100MB or so for /boot (as usual, as I mentioned elsewhere). > Look also into using drbd. Will do; thanks. Richard -- 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
