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