I have an existing raid10,f2 array with four drives, all running on a single
SATA controller. I have a second controller to add to the system and I'd like
to split the existing drives between the two controllers. I'm hoping to make
the configuration more robust against the possibility of a single controller
failure. It would also be nice to get more performance out of the array, though
I doubt having a single controller is a bottleneck with only 4 7200RPM drives.
So with four drives sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd and two controllers C1 and C2, should
I go with
C1: sda, sdb
C2: sdc, sdd
or
C1: sda, sdc
C2: sdb, sdd
or some other configuration?
I've looked through the last six months of messages in the archives, and the
md(4) and mdadm(8) manpages, and the wiki on https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/ and
didn't see anything that quite answers this question at a level I can
understand. If there is a reference I can consult, I'm happy to keep digging.
If it will help, the output of /proc/mdstat and "mdadm --detail" on the md
device are included below.
Mike McCallister
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
[raid10]
md3 : active raid10 sda5[0] sdd5[3] sdc5[2] sdb5[1]
1445318656 blocks super 1.1 256K chunks 2 far-copies [4/4] [UUUU]
bitmap: 6/345 pages [24KB], 2048KB chunk
# mdadm --detail /dev/md3
/dev/md3:
Version : 01.01.03
Creation Time : Sun Nov 9 22:47:00 2008
Raid Level : raid10
Array Size : 1445318656 (1378.36 GiB 1480.01 GB)
Used Dev Size : 1445318656 (689.18 GiB 740.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Sun Apr 11 11:47:09 2010
State : active
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : near=1, far=2
Chunk Size : 256K
Name : ozark:3
UUID : e7705941:e81cfbe1:7bf6ab9f:2b979a89
Events : 84
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 5 0 active sync /dev/sda5
1 8 21 1 active sync /dev/sdb5
2 8 37 2 active sync /dev/sdc5
3 8 53 3 active sync /dev/sdd5
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