[CentOS] Re: Anaconda doesn't support raid10

[Ruslan Sivak]

Feizhou wrote:
>
>> Originally I had boot on 2 drives raid1, with 2 more drives being 
>> hotspares.  Then I realized that this makes no sense, if you can just 
>> set up a raid1 with 4 drives (where each drive is a copy of each 
>> other).  Didn't really know if it was supported, but looks like it 
>> works.
>
> The entire use all four disks for /boot makes no sense if two disks 
> belonging to the same mirror for the lvm go down. Please stop this 
> nonsense about surviving everything to no benefit. You can have three 
> disks fail and still have a working /boot. For what?
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Yes, if two disks belonging to the same mirror go down, I lose my data.  
But if two disks which are not from the same mirror go down, I would 
like to be able to boot up without any problems.  And as someone else 
mentioned, what else am I going to do with those 200mb?  I'd rather 
maintain symmetry and not have to worry which disks /boot is on, as I'll 
know that if the data drive survives, then I won't have any problems 
with the boot drive either.

Russ