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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!