On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible or will there be any problems with using mdraid on top of mdraid? > > specifically say > mdraid 1/5 on top of mdraid multipath. > > e.g. 4 storage machines exporting iSCSI targets via two different > physical network switches > > then use multipath to create md block devices > then use mdraid on these md block devices > > The purpose being the raid storage array surviving a physical network > switch failure. > > In case of duplicates, for some reason the first post isn't showing up > on the mailing list so I'm resending it. > _______________________________________________ Since your exporting the storage as iSCSI, the host machine will see it as a raw disk, irrespective of how it's setup on the exported server. So, yes, you can do this. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos