[CentOS] RAID-10 vs Nested (RAID-0 on 2x RAID-1s)
Luke S. Crawford
lsc at prgmr.com
Fri Mar 30 03:19:58 UTC 2012
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:49:26PM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote:
> Am I overthinking this? Does the kernel handle the mirror/stripe configuration under the hood, simply presenting me with a magical RAID10 array? Or, is this something different and I really should be performing the RAID creation manually as noted in option #1?
I used to do something very similar to option 1, save that I used LVM to
do the striping. I now use the md raid10 array. Rebuilds are dramatically
faster under the 'just let md handle the raid10' option.
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