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On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 16:49 -0500, Tim Nelson wrote:
[root@c6r10tester ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 1.1 Creation Time : Thu Mar 29 16:14:17 2012 Raid Level : raid10
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Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K...
Am I overthinking this? Does the kernel handle the mirror/stripe configuration under the hood, simply presenting me with a magical RAID10 array? Or, is this something different and I really should be performing the RAID creation manually as noted in option #1?
Two resources to look at are:
- Wikipedia "Linux MD RAID 10"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10
- mdadm manpage section for --layout= (the raid10 part)
"Finally, the layout options for RAID10 are one of ’n’, ’o’ or ’f’..."
The key to understanding your setup is mdadm --detail "Layout: near=2". The cited Wikipedia reference for a "standard near layout" describes your situation.
This is exactly the info I needed. Thank you for pointing me to it!
--tim