On 03/29/12 2:49 PM, Tim Nelson wrote: > Am I overthinking this? yes. > Does the kernel handle the mirror/stripe configuration under the hood, simply presenting me with a magical RAID10 array? yes. > Or, is this something different and I really should be performing the RAID creation manually as noted in option #1? no. :) -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast