On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:56 -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote: > i'd also be curious to see any responses to this. I can see making two > stripes easy enough, but then just how to mirror them as a single device? > > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Jack Howarth wrote: > > > Has anyone tried setting up a four drive RAID 0+1 > > on Fedora Core using the installer tools for setting > > up custom drive partitions? After doing some benchmarks > > on a new dual quad core Xeon system, it has become > > apparent that at 8 processors certain calculations > > that thread well can show a disk i/o bottleneck > > so it might be worth exploring striping my mirrors > > with a RAID 0+1. However, I am unclear on how well > > tested the linux software raid support (and installer > > setup tools) are for such a configuration. > > Jack > > > > > Justin, maybe this would help to understand. It's for etherblades, allright but the principle is the same. http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-4.html Calin ================================================= Typo in the code
