[CentOS] Software RAID 10?

Mon Apr 2 18:52:08 UTC 2007
Gordon McLellan <gordonthree at gmail.com>

I don't know if anaconda knows how to do it, but what about this idea:

create two softraid-1 devices, md0 and md1

now create an lvm vg that is striped across those devices

seems to capture the basic idea of raid 10, right?

Gordon


On 4/2/07, Mickey Everts <mickey-ml at greenglow.org> wrote:
>
> Hello...
>
> I have a server with 4 x SCSI drives and I would like to install Centos
> 4 (or 5) onto a software RAID 10 array.  Do you know if this is
> possible? I noticed that under the Centos 4.92 beta, RAID 5 is an option
> but for some reason RAID 10 is not listed.
>
> There does appear to be a RAID 10 module....
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/md/raid10.ko
>
> More info I found here:
>
> http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/01093607424
>
> Many thanks for any help on this; I hate to buy hardware raid controller
> if not needed....
>
> Mickey
>
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