From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: What's the typical RAID10 setup? Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:04:28 +0100 Message-ID: <20110203110428.GA26762@www2.open-std.org> References: <20110131192858.GD27952@www2.open-std.org> <4D4718E1.9040607@hardwarefreak.com> <20110131203725.GB2283@www2.open-std.org> <4D475AB5.10600@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D475AB5.10600@hardwarefreak.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stan Hoeppner Cc: Jon Nelson , Mathias =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bur=E9n?= , Roberto Spadim , Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen , Denis , Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:58:29PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Jon Nelson put forth on 1/31/2011 3:27 PM: > > Before this goes any further, why not just reference the excellent > > Wikipedia article (actually, excellent applies to both Wikipedia *and* > > the article): > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10 > > > > The only problem I have with the wikipedia article is the assertion > > that Linux MD RAID 10 is non-standard. It's as standard as anything > > else is in this world. > > Unfortunately there is no organization, no standards body, that defines RAID > levels. Well there is an organisation that does just that, namely SNIA. http://www.snia.org The RAID levels are defined in DDF - a "SNIA" standard. http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/ddf/ (Info courtesey of Neil Brown) best regards keld