Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sat, March 8, 2008 19:18, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 SAS disks and a PERC 5/i controller what won't do RAID 6. I plan to have 2 drives as RAID 1 for the OS, and the remaining 4 as RAID 6. Granted the PERC can do RAID 1, I'm tempted

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sat, March 8, 2008 19:18, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 SAS disks and a PERC 5/i controller what won't do RAID 6. I plan to have 2 drives as RAID 1 for the OS, and the remaining 4 as RAID 6.

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: What would be the recommended way to create a software RAID 10 array? Again, two disks for the OS as s/w RAID 1, the remaining four disks for data as RAID 10, with possibly 1 of the 4 as a [hot] spare. well, if you only have 4 drives for that raid10, I dunno how have