From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: RAID10 n1 layout? Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:17:34 +1000 Message-ID: <20100617201734.6fc769f3@notabene.brown> References: <268626.87856.qm@web32401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <268626.87856.qm@web32401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Sandor Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:02:09 -0700 (PDT) Adrian Sandor wrote: > Hi, I've just created a RAID10 with mdadm using default options, and with -v it said: > mdadm: layout defaults to n1 > According to the docs, the default should be n2, and n1 would mean no redundancy (like RAID0) > Furthermore, after creating the array, I checked it with -D and it said: > Layout : near=2 > Is this a bug? > I'm using mdadm 3.0 Yes it is a bug. It says "n1" but it means "n2". It will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for the report. NeilBrown > > Thanks > Adrian > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html