On Saturday 27 September 2008 09:32:27 pm Bill Davidsen wrote: > The Fedora installer has insisted on requiring four drives for raid-10 > install, and then not using raid-10, but rather raid-1+0 which is *NOT* the > same thing. Any hope that this could be fixed in fc10, as it is a real PITA > to fight a way around it and get a proper raid configured. > > This is a real performance issue, see linux-raid discussion in archives > about this. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot Raid 10 requires at least 4 drives. and then it needs even numbers of disks to grow. so you could do 4,6,8,10,12 etc. an odd disk is should only be used as a hot spare. otherwise it would cause degregation to the array md1 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 624623104 blocks 256K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] looks like its right to me. this box was installed F-8 and was yum updated to rawhide. my box with raid 10 is using the raid 10 module. i have 4x320gb drives and get great performance out of the array. hdparm -tT /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Timing cached reads: 4868 MB in 1.99 seconds = 2441.54 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 256 MB in 3.02 seconds = 84.75 MB/sec Dennis -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines