Re: about linear and about RAID10

[David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>]

Wol, et al --

Just a couple of quick notes ...


...and then Wol said...
% On 03/12/2022 18:27, David T-G wrote:
% > 
% > ...and then Wols Lists said...
% > % On 03/12/2022 05:58, David T-G wrote:
% > % >
...
% > Or that's how I understood it in the very many RAID wiki pages and other
% > docs I read :-)
% > 
% Hmm ... so being pedantic about terminology that's a definite raid-1+0, not
% linux-raid-10.

OK.  I'll try rereading the wiki pages and see where I went wrong.
Perhaps they can be clarified.


...
% it to a true raid-10. You said you had plenty of spare 2TBs, so --replace
% one of your 4TBs onto a pair of 2TBs, then --replace one of your raid-0's

Er, no.  I have plenty of "less-than-two-terabyte" drives.  They are all
used as one-off drives for archiving content.  1T here, 750G there, and
so on all as second copies for an ~18T external archive disk.  But, no, I
don't have perfect lovely half-size disks waiting to bring into play (or
they would be holding archive content! :-)

Sorry for any confusion.


HANW

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