[CentOS] setting up CentOS 5 with Raid10

Ruslan Sivak rsivak at istandfor.com
Tue Apr 24 12:30:58 UTC 2007


B.J. McClure wrote:
>
>> I would like to set up CentOS on 4 SATA hard drives that I would like to
>> configure in RAID10.  I read somewhere that Raid10 support is in the
>> latest kernel, but I can't seem to get anaconda to let me create it.  I
>> only see raid 0, 1, 5, and 6.
>>
>> Even when I tried to set up raid5 or raid1, it would not let me put the
>> /boot partition on it, and I though that this was now possible.
>>
>> Is it possible for me to set up the configuration I'm looking for?
>>
>> Russ
>>
> Cannot speak to raid 10 but have been running 4.4 an 5.0 with raid 1 
> and /boot partition on md0 for some time.  Have not seen the issue you 
> refer to.
>
> bj
>
>

Well as far as Raid10, it's not even an option for the installer.  If I 
do select raid1 for the entire array, I only get the space of 3 of the 4 
drives, and the installer still complains that I cannot put boot on a 
raid system. 

Is there a how-to somewhere on getting this to work?

Russ



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