On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > RAID10 is (could be) setup in this way, correct? > > 2 devices in a RAID1 > 2 devices in another RAID1 I usually use LVM striping over two RAID1 arrays for this. > > Then you run RAID0 on top of them. If you're lucky you can lose 2 > devices at most (1 in each RAID1). > > If you have, say 6 HDDs, would you create 3 RAID1 volumes? Then create > a RAID0 on top of them? > > How would one go about expanding a 4 HDD RAID10 into a 6 HDD RAID10? > Is it "just" a matter of creating a new RAID1 array of the 2 new HDDs, > then adding them to the RAID0, then expanding whatever is on that > (lvm, xfs, ext4)? > > Are there any design tips, or caveats? For example, how many disks > would you use at most, in a RAID10 setup? > > Kind regards, > // Mathias > -- > 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 > -- Best regards, [COOLCOLD-RIPN] -- 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
