[BlueOnyx:02867] Re: raid 10

[Jeff Folk]

I guess it is RAID 0+1. I think I saw a volume group in webmin which  
must be the strip of the pair of two 340 GB disks.

I guess my question would be, will it rebuild automatically if I have  
a drive failure? Will I know which drive to replace? You wouldn't  
happen to have a good how-to for that? (listen to me... want want  
WANT) I got rid of a RaQ XTR because the RAID wouldn't rebuild after a  
disk failure.

Maybe a SATA RAID card is a good idea... I'm not too worried about the  
overhead on my hobby server, but it runs my mail and I chose RAID for  
failsafe...

Thanks Michael
Jeff

On Nov 12, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
>> I guess I don't... Don't see a RAID 10 personality.
>
> Yeah, like said: BlueOnyx can do RAID0+1 if it finds four disks.  
> Which is no
> true RAID10, but something pretty close.
>
> The reasons for not supporting true RAID10 (or RAID5 either) are  
> limitations
> of the Anaconda CD installer. The first stage kernel didn't support  
> either
> RAID5 or RAID10 so far, hence you couldn't use Anaconda to set up  
> RAID10 or
> RAID5. I think that was recently changed in Anaconda, but I haven't  
> yet
> checked if the new install CD kernel now handles it, too.
>
> -- 
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
>
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