Scott Silva wrote: > Ruslan Sivak spake the following on 5/7/2007 2:22 PM: > >> Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >>> On 5/7/07, Ruslan Sivak >>> <rsivak at istandfor.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>> Whether or not it was designed to create a Raid5/raid10, it allows the >>>> creating of raid5 and raid6 during install. It doesn't, however, allow >>>> the use of raid10 even if it's created in the shell outside of anaconda >>>> (or if you have an old installation on a raid10). >>>> >>>> >>> My guess is that software Raid10 is still in the eats its children >>> stage. Most of the time I found it reliable, but I remember the kernel >>> developers having lots of race condition problems at times. In a >>> limited memory install region that is anaconda.. these might creep up >>> more often to be only supported by hand. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Well it's not even supported by hand. Anaconda flat out refuses to let >> you use it. Even when I create the device by hand (be it by loading the >> raid10 module manually and doing mdadm, or by making 2 raid1's and >> putting a raid0 on top of them), anaconda just flat out refuses to see >> the final device. >> >> Russ >> > I don't think anaconda will support it or raid 6 for the foreseeable future. > You have to throw up an upstream complaint, and I doubt you would see anything > till Fedora Core 8 or so. RedHat's stance seems to be that if you need that > kind of reliability, buy hardware raid that does raid 10 > > Anaconda does now support raid6. The only reason I didn't go with it is that I heard that performance would be very bad on it. Russ