[CentOS] "Shortcut" for creating a software RAID 60?

Sorin Srbu Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se
Wed Oct 26 06:00:48 UTC 2016


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John R Pierce
> Sent: den 26 oktober 2016 07:42
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] "Shortcut" for creating a software RAID 60?
> 
> On 10/25/2016 11:54 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > If you built a RAID0 array of RAID6 arrays, then you'd fail a disk by
> > marking it failed and removing it from whichever RAID6 array it was a
> > member of, in the same fashion as you'd remove it from any other array
> > type.
> 
> FWIW, what I've done in the past is build the raid 6's with mdraid, then
> use LVM to stripe them into a volume group.

What's the advantage doing it that way?

Ease of maintenance maybe?

-- 
//Sorin


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