hummm nice =) near layout is the key for many mirrors? i will check more layouts 2011/2/16 Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 10:40:40AM -0300, Roberto Spadim wrote: > >> i agree with giovanni, another question since we will make a lot of >> change on mirrors based arrays (raid1, raid10) with the badblock list, >> could we: >> >> option1) remove raid1 code, change raid10 to work without raid0 >> 'service', change raid10 to work with more than 1mirror (like raid1 >> do)? >> option2) port raid10 layout to raid1? >> > You can already do option1 (if I'm understanding you correctly). A > RAID10 array can use as many mirrors as you like (--layout n2 is the > default, meaning a near layout with 2 replicas, using n4 would give 4 > replicas), and as long as the number of replicas is equal to the number > of devices, there should be no striping involved in the process. > > Cheers, > Robin > -- > ___ > ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > / / ) | Little Jim says .... | > // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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
