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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
To: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>
Cc: Ross Vandegrift <ross@lug.udel.edu>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md faster than h/w?
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:42:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C8D5A1.5070004@tls.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C8B5A5.5010500@fastmail.co.uk>

Max Waterman wrote:
[]
> My preference will probably be raid10 - ie raid0 2 drives, raid0
> another 2 drives, and then raid1 both raid0s. My 5th disk can be a hot
> spare. Round reasonable?

Nononono. Never do that.  Instead, create two raid1s and raid0
both, ie, just the opposite.  Think about the two variants, and
I hope you'll come to the reason why raid0(2x raid1) is more
reliable than raid1(2x raid0). ;)

> Alternatively, we could probably get a 6th disk and do raid1 on
> disk #5 & #6 and install the OS on that - keeping the application
> data separate. This would be ideal, I think. For some reason, I like
> to keep os separate from application data.

BTW, there's a raid10 module in current 2.6 kernels, which works
somewhat differently compared with raid0(2x raid1) etc.

/mjt

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-14 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-13  7:06 md faster than h/w? Max Waterman
2006-01-13 14:46 ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-13 21:08   ` Lajber Zoltan
2006-01-14  1:19   ` Max Waterman
2006-01-14  2:05     ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-14  8:26       ` Max Waterman
2006-01-14 10:42         ` Michael Tokarev [this message]
2006-01-14 11:48           ` Max Waterman
2006-01-14 18:14         ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-14  1:22   ` Max Waterman
2006-01-14  6:40 ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-14  8:54   ` Max Waterman
2006-01-14 21:23   ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-16  4:37     ` Max Waterman
2006-01-16  5:33       ` Max Waterman
2006-01-16 14:12         ` Andargor
2006-01-17  9:18           ` Max Waterman
2006-01-17 17:09             ` Andargor
2006-01-18  4:43               ` Max Waterman
2006-01-16  6:31   ` Max Waterman
2006-01-16 13:30     ` Ric Wheeler
2006-01-16 14:08       ` Mark Hahn

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