From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: wish for Linux MD mirrored raid types Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 15:40:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20110506134015.GB22689@www2.open-std.org> References: <20110506071752.GA22063@www2.open-std.org> <20110506133159.30c66519@natsu> <20110506090345.GA22245@www2.open-std.org> <4DC3BDD9.1060300@abpni.co.uk> <20110506094102.GC22245@www2.open-std.org> <20110506155059.6f82cbeb@natsu> <20110506123336.GC22617@www2.open-std.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen , Roman Mamedov , Jonathan Tripathy , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:26:52PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2011, Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote: >=20 > >I am proposing that we call our raid10 layout types for RAID1 - in=20 > >accordance with SNIA standards, and in accordance with the common=20 > >understanding as demonstrated by you and others, even here on the=20 > >linux-raid kernel mailing list. >=20 > Just so we're clear, if I create a raid1 with 4 drives I want 4 ident= ical=20 > copies of the same information, not RAID1+0. >=20 > How should this be handled with your suggestion? With parameters like the ones that we use today for raid10. Something like mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=3D1 -n 4 --layout=3Dc4 /dev/sd[abcd]1=20 assuming a new layout type "classic" abbreviated as "c". "n4" could als= o do for the layout value. best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html