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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: govind raj <agovinda04@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 5+0 support
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:26:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43CFCBB2.3050003@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY109-F267E92D32B75385FDB680DD61C0@phx.gbl>

Why on earth would you want to stripe two raid-5's instead of using one 
raid-5 that is twice as big?  You'd get more usable disk space that way. 


govind raj wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are using EVMS 2.5.4 on Linux 2.6.12.6 kernel version.
>
> We find that kernel modules are available for RAID0, 1, 5, 1+0 as part 
> of this kernel. But however, we do not find a similar module available 
> for RAID 5+0. Can someone advise us of how we would be able to get 
> this support added into the kernel? If this is not required as a 
> kernel module, how do we create a RAID 5+0 using MD?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Govind
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-19 16:52 RAID 5+0 support govind raj
2006-01-19 17:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-19 17:26 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2006-01-19 18:07   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-19 18:36   ` Martin Drab
2006-01-19 19:06     ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 20:14       ` Martin Drab

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