Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help

2005-10-30 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:42, Qiangning Hong wrote: Did you use mdadm to make the arrays? No, I create /etc/raidtab by hand and run mkraid for each md device, following the steps of http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID You can ignore any howto that tells you to

[gentoo-user] RAID 10 help

2005-10-29 Thread Qiangning Hong
I have four identical SATA disks and want to create a Software RAID 10 array for my new gentoo system. But I am quite a newbie for the RAID area. I googled but found nothing teach me how to setup a RAID10 on four disks -- all the tutorials, howto, etc. are talking about setup RAID1 or RAID0 or

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help

2005-10-29 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot. Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema: /dev/sda3/dev/sdb3

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help

2005-10-29 Thread Qiangning Hong
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot. Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema: /dev/sda3