On 05/24/2013 02:49 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > > I'm looking into building a six-disk raid10. The six disks are > comprised of three from one manufacturer, and three from another. > But based on what I've been reading, looks like mdadm's more > sophisticated raid10 layout schemes give better performance. For > example, can I create a raid10,f2 set in such a way as to meet my > "redundant copies on different manufacturer" criteria? Just alternate the manufacturers when you list the devices in the "--create" operation. MD lays out raid10,f2 redundant data on adjacent disks. (Wraps around.) Phil -- 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