[CentOS] Re: Anaconda doesn't support raid10

Fri May 11 19:22:04 UTC 2007
Ruslan Sivak <rsivak at istandfor.com>

John R Pierce wrote:
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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.
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> so, is your / on a 4 spindle mirror too?
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> N-way mirrors require every write to be done N times.

No, / is on a 2 raid 1 arrays which are striped using LVM.  And the N 
times write penalty doesn't really apply to boot, since it rarely gets 
written to.

Russ