[CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?
Christopher Chan
christopher at ias.com.hk
Mon May 26 02:17:02 UTC 2008
Linux wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher at ias.com.hk> wrote:
>> I believe you cannot do it via the installer yet. Can anybody confirm the
>> presence of raid10 personality in Centos 5?
>
> Installer does not have raid10 as an option. Not sure whether boot cd
> has this module or not. But after installing, it exists.
>
> Current mdadm raid10 version in CentOS5 is a little old (v2.5.4 - 13
> October 2006) and has a bug which sometimes kicks one drive from raid
> after initial resync and repeats kicking-after-resync when hot added
> again and again and again.
In other words, broken. So do not use raid10 personality on Centos5.
Okay. Back to stripping mirrors people.
More information about the CentOS
mailing list