From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maurice Hilarius Subject: Re: Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:47:10 -0600 Message-ID: <5150F00E.4060506@harddata.com> References: <515089B1.9010607@gmail.com> <51509025.2060402@gmail.com> <5150DC08.8000702@gmail.com> <4C0D23B0-8ABA-4086-BF42-774EF7F0C817@colorremedies.com> <5150E665.2090902@gmail.com> <843EA420-6F4A-41DF-BDED-7F35D6263A87@colorremedies.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <843EA420-6F4A-41DF-BDED-7F35D6263A87@colorremedies.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Murphy , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 3/25/2013 6:40 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mar 25, 2013, at 6:05 PM, maurice wrote: >> What about partitioning the drives first, installing a smallish partition for boot, then a second much larger partition on each for the RAID10? > What's the advantage of this compared to a separate drive? In your proposed scenario, if the /boot drive dies, you have an unbootable system anyway. Firstly, there would be 4 redundant copies of the boot. Easy enough to accomplish. If any one goes down, easy to pick one of the others. Secondly, there is only room for 4 drives in this chassis Thirdly, cost Now, back to my original question: Making the RAID10, near. In reading the man pages, it seems near 2 is the default option for create? Is there any reason to be wary of the stock CentOS 6 2.6.32 kernel? -- Cheers, Maurice Hilarius eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/