From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: What's the typical RAID10 setup? Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:38:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4D473A02.3070809@cfl.rr.com> References: <20110131152151.GD7861@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> <4D470F96.40409@cfl.rr.com> <4D471A41.1090706@hardwarefreak.com> <4D4730C0.8080900@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Nelson Cc: Stan Hoeppner , Denis , Roberto Spadim , Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 1/31/2011 5:08 PM, Jon Nelson wrote: > I operate (and have done so for a long time) a raid10,f2 on two drives. > What makes you think it wants at least 3? Neat, I thought I tried that the other day and it complained that raid 5 and 6 ( sic ) need at least 3 drives. Seemed like it was just a bug or oversight.