[BlueOnyx:02872] Re: raid 10

[Michael Stauber]

Hi James,

> I tried something to see what would happen not too long ago - I had an old
> 12-disk SCSI array that does NOT do hardware RAID that I hooked up to a
> machine and let BO loose on it.  I was hoping, even though I expected it
> would be slow, to get some sort of RAID0+1 config giving me a md device for
> half of my total disk space.  Well, after it got all installed and booted
> up, I found that the configuration it built was a single device the size of
> a single drive, having 12 (yes, 12) mirrors of the same data.  Guess that
> wasn't really an intended hardware setup... :)

Heh, yeah. Now THAT's rendundancy taken a bit too far. :o)

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With best regards

Michael Stauber