On Dec 9, 2003, Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:23, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Dec 9, 2003, Hans MÃller <ndof@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > raid 10 when 1 disk in the raid1 and 1 disk in the raid0 part fail >> >> This claim doesn't make sense. There's no such thing as the raid1 >> and raid0 parts. RAID 10 is a RAID 0 array built atop of a collection >> of RAID 1 arrays. > I always thought that RAID 10 was just a mirrored RAID 0 set. Nope. This would be a silly arrangement, since then, if you were to lose *any* disk in each RAID0 array, you'd lose everything. With RAID0 of RAID1s, for the same hardware, you get a far more failure-resilient system. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
