From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Assorted md patches headed for 2.6.30 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:56:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4995A626.6030902@tmr.com> References: <20090212031009.23983.14496.stgit@notabene.brown> <20090212081148.GD9439@rap.rap.dk> <4993E82D.1020309@fairbairn-family.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4993E82D.1020309@fairbairn-family.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Steve Fairbairn Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Steve Fairbairn wrote: > Keld J=F8rn Simonsen wrote: >> >> I would rather have functionality to convert raid10 to raid5. >> raid1 should be depreciated, as raid10,n2 for all purposes is the sa= me >> but better implementation and performance, and raid10,f2 and raid10,= o2 >> are even better. Nobody should use raid1 anymore. >> > Complete ignorance of raid10 here, but is raid10, bootable,= =20 > like raid1 is? I use raid1 on my root and boot partitions. Note: if you use an initrd you can get away with raid1 on only the boot= =20 partition (I do with Fedora/GRUB). And most "recovery CDs" will not use= =20 a raid10 swap without starting it by hand, important only on small=20 memory machines. --=20 Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will stil= l be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark=20 -- 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