From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Tom=E1=9A_Dul=EDk?= Subject: Re: raid10,f2 Add a Controller: Which drives to move? Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:41:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4BC29670.6020504@unart.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael McCallister Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, I am not sure if I understand your question, but I suppose you will hit the problem of udev naming of your disks, and if your disks are hotswap-able, then also the problem of hotswap, which is currently discussed here in this mailing list. I have spent too much time trying to solve both these problems with the current linux SW RAID (mdadm v. 2.6) and here is the first part of my solution: http://wiki.debian.org/Persistent_disk_names The page is still not really finished, I am still playing with my server so the documentation must wait. Michael McCallister napsal(a): > So with four drives sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd and two controllers C1 and C2, should > I go with > > C1: sda, sdb > C2: sdc, sdd > > or > > C1: sda, sdc > C2: sdb, sdd > > or some other configuration? >