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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: Maurice Hilarius <maurice@harddata.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:37:27 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26589278.14.1364330247753.JavaMail.root@zimbra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51520563.6010700@harddata.com>

> On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > If you have 2x4TB and you want to setup the lot for booting and
> > data, I'd recommend doing like the NAS boxes I've seen (well, only
> > QNAP 410 IIRC). On that one, they chose to create partitions for /
> > and swap (and perhaps /boot), and equal-ish partitions for those
> > used for data. On those, you can place a RAID-10, or perhaps two
> > RAID-1s and use LVM to stripe them. The latter is far more flexible,
> > as RAID-10 lacks most of the flexibility other RAID leverls have.

> I have 4 x 2TB, actually.

Erm, that's what I meant. I just wouldn't recommend using RAID-10, since it isn't very flexible. LVM on top of multiple mirrors is better.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-25 17:30 Creating a RAID10 (near) for use in a CentOS 6 system maurice
2013-03-25 17:57 ` maurice
2013-03-25 23:05   ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-25 23:21     ` maurice
2013-03-25 23:44       ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-26  0:05         ` maurice
2013-03-26  0:40           ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-26  0:47             ` Maurice Hilarius
2013-03-26  1:05               ` Chris Murphy
     [not found]             ` <5150F101.6020205@gmail.com>
2013-03-26  1:11               ` Chris Murphy
2013-03-26  9:35           ` Brad Campbell
2013-03-26 15:16             ` maurice
2013-03-26 20:21 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-03-26 20:30   ` Maurice Hilarius
2013-03-26 20:37     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [this message]

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