[CentOS] RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

Mon May 26 02:17:02 UTC 2008
Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk>

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.