On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Jerry Franz<jfranz at freerun.com> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Hi Oliver, >> It's not the same thing :) >> Although they work, and do the same, the installer CD & mdadm needs to >> support it. The specific appliance that I want to install, doesn't >> support RAID 10, so I need to install RAID 1 + RAID 0, i.e. setting 2x >> RAID 1 mirrors, and then stripe then in RAID0 - but once the first 1 >> mirrors are setup, I can't stripe them. >> >> I've seen people use LVM to add them to one volume, but the installer >> doesn't see to like that either > > Hmmm... 'specific appliance'. > > This doesn't sound like you are installing CentOS. This makes it > *really* hard for us to help you since we have absolutely no idea what > you are actually doing. ;) > > A) What are you actually doing? > > B) Do you have to have RAID10 during install or is it sufficient that > you can build a data 'drive' after install? > > -- > Benjamin Franz > _______________________________________________ heh, I was a bit hesitant to say what it is, but it's fine I guess - seeing as my previous post dealt on the matter of NAS devices :) I'm installing Openfiler 2.3, which looks very very similar to the CentOS installer. My reason for RAID 1+0 (like I said it doesn't support RAID10) is for the higher level of redundancy & speed, and I would like to utilize the drives to their max, I've setup the /boot on sda1 & sdc1 (100MB each) on RAID 1, and then configured sda2, sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 as 4GB swap each (no RAID), then the remainder on sda3, sdb3, sdc3 & sdd3 as 2x RAID 1 mirrors - i.e. sda3 & sdc3 on /dev/md2 & sdb3 & sdd3 on /dev/md3. Yet, I can't create another RAID, i.e. /dev/md4 of md2 & md3 combined, nor can I tell the LVM setup to span md2 & md3 into the same volume. So, now I'm stuck. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532