From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network-based RAID6
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:16:13 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110331111613.06079a0a@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D94097A.3030909@hardwarefreak.com>
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:56:26 -0500
Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Roman Mamedov put forth on 3/30/2011 12:50 PM:
> > So I guess a viable and interesting solution could be an mdadm stripe over
> > two or more DRBD mirrors, effectively providing RAID10. Although that's
> > not quite what I am looking for (RAID5/6-levels of overhead and
> > resilience).
>
> The mdraid driver sits beneath DRBD. What you suggest above is impossible.
I thought DRBD presents just a regular kernel-level block device in /dev, and
seeing how one can create mdraid out of just any kind of block device,
including those provided by AoE, iSCSI, LVM, dmcrypt or even 'loop', are you
really sure this matters here?
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With respect,
Roman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 7:11 Network-based RAID6 Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 7:20 ` CoolCold
2011-03-30 8:49 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 13:35 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-30 14:24 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-30 14:43 ` Miles Fidelman
2011-03-30 14:58 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-30 17:50 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 18:17 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-31 4:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-31 5:16 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2011-03-31 5:35 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-31 7:59 ` hansbkk
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