From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Network-based RAID6 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:56:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4D94097A.3030909@hardwarefreak.com> References: <20110330131157.49fd2521@natsu> <20110330144944.3c87185c@natsu> <4D933188.30003@hardwarefreak.com> <20110330235052.3a803d35@natsu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110330235052.3a803d35@natsu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Roman Mamedov Cc: CoolCold , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Roman Mamedov put forth on 3/30/2011 12:50 PM: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:35:04 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner 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