[CentOS] Anaconda doesn't support raid10

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ruslan Sivak
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:53 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] Anaconda doesn't support raid10
> 
> So after troubleshooting this for about a week, I was finally able to 
> create a raid 10 device by installing the system, copying the 
> md modules 
> onto a floppy, and loading the raid10 module during the install. 
> 
> Now the problem is that I can't get it to show up in anaconda.  It 
> detects the other arrays (raid0 and raid1) fine, but the raid10 array 
> won't show up.  Looking through the logs (Alt-F3), I see the 
> following 
> warning:
> 
> WARNING: raid level RAID10 not supported, skipping md10. 
> 
> I'm starting to hate the installer more and more.  Why won't 
> it let me 
> install on this device, even though it's working perfectly from the 
> shell?  Why am I the only one having this problem?  Is nobody 
> out there 
> using md based raid10? 

Most people install the OS on a 2 disk raid1, then create a separate
raid10 for data storage.

Anaconda was never designed to create RAID5/RAID10 during install.

-Ross

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