> > 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.) You also may want to consider using LVM instead of md RAID-10, since the latter isn't very flexible - you can't add new drives or otherwise grow raid-10 (atm). Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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
