On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:58:29PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jon Nelson put forth on 1/31/2011 3:27 PM: > > Before this goes any further, why not just reference the excellent > > Wikipedia article (actually, excellent applies to both Wikipedia *and* > > the article): > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10 > > > > The only problem I have with the wikipedia article is the assertion > > that Linux MD RAID 10 is non-standard. It's as standard as anything > > else is in this world. > > Unfortunately there is no organization, no standards body, that defines RAID > levels. Well there is an organisation that does just that, namely SNIA. http://www.snia.org The RAID levels are defined in DDF - a "SNIA" standard. http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/ddf/ (Info courtesey of Neil Brown) 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