From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
Cc: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network-based RAID6
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:56:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D94097A.3030909@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110330235052.3a803d35@natsu>
Roman Mamedov put forth on 3/30/2011 12:50 PM:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:35:04 -0500
> Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want true block level replication over a network, look into DRBD.
>> However, it is also limited to mirroring.
>
> So I guess a viable and interesting solution could be an mdadm stripe over two
> or more DRBD mirrors, effectively providing RAID10. Although that's not quite
> what I am looking for (RAID5/6-levels of overhead and resilience).
The mdraid driver sits beneath DRBD. What you suggest above is impossible.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-30 7:11 Network-based RAID6 Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 7:20 ` CoolCold
2011-03-30 8:49 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 13:35 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-30 14:24 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-30 14:43 ` Miles Fidelman
2011-03-30 14:58 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-30 17:50 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-03-30 18:17 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-31 4:56 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-03-31 5:16 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-03-31 5:35 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-31 7:59 ` hansbkk
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