On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4 > machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of > raid-1's 0'd )Can you give more detail on what you've got there? Sounds interesting. -- ?Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV? - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
Alan McKay wrote:> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >> I have this running in production. only not with 2 machines, but with 4 >> machines, doing raid-10 ( not mdraid10, but conventional 2 sets of >> raid-1's 0'd ) >> > > Can you give more detail on what you've got there? > Sounds interesting. > >...four disk setup like so: sda+sdb = md0 (raid 1) sdc + sdb = md1 (raid 1) md0 + md1 = md2 (raid 0) A pretty common setup that was possible during installation since RH9 (not all through anaconda though, older distros needed some manual command line intervention using Alt-F2 for a shell)