Re: RAID 5+0 support

[Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>]

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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