> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 13:54:07 +1100, > ECJ <jakosalem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> I followed the steps in the link below but my RAID 10 array had a >> problem >> after a reboot. >> What I did was: >> - constructed 2 RAID0s (3x73GB each) >> - combined these 2 into a RAID1 >> - mkfs.ext3 /dev/md45 (the name of my RAID10 array) >> - mounted it on /data > > I am not sure about your question, but I did notice that you built your > array in an unusual manner. Usually you want to do raid 1 first and then > stripe accross the raid 1 mirrors. The problem with this is that are > multiple > drive failure sittions where a striped mirror would still be running where > as a mirrored stripe would be dead in the water. (Though in the latter > case > you could still recover stuff after replacing the bad drives.) > It's actually what my boss wants: Create 2 RAID0s and combine them into RAID1 (mirrored stripe). Any ideas what went wrong? Cheers, Edward
