From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Another new users' guide to installing Linux software RAID 10 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:06:02 +0100 Message-ID: <48AAFD7A.2070606@anonymous.org.uk> References: <923541.95602.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <923541.95602.qm@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 19/08/2008 15:25, Bruce Miller wrote: > Another article has appeared on a mainstream Linux web site which aims to smooth the installation of Linux RAID 10 for beginners: > http://howtoforge.com/install-ubuntu-with-software-raid-10 > > As someone who merely lurks on this list and almost never posts, I do not dare to assess the accuracy or soundness of this article. But Howtoforge has a certain popularity among users who are not full-time IT professionals. > > It might be useful if one of the experts on this site looked at the article; if you find it worthwhile, perhaps a link could be added to wiki.linux-raid.osdl.org. I don't claim to be an expert, but... 1. "Raid 10 is the fastest RAID level that also has good redundancy too". This isn't necessarily true. 2. The configuration suggested will crash if any disc crashes, because it has swap on raw disc partitions. 3. The configuration suggested cannot reboot if the first disc crashes because /boot is on a raw partition on the first disc only. If I've got this all wrong, please let me know... Cheers, John.