On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:13:41PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Linux raid10 MODULE (which implements that standard raid10 > LEVEL in full) adds some quite.. unusual extensions to that > standard raid10 LEVEL. The resulting layout is also called > raid10 in linux (ie, not giving new names), but it's not that > raid10 (which is again the same as raid1+0) as commonly known > in various literature and on the internet. Yet raid10 module > fully implements STANDARD raid10 LEVEL.
My understanding is that you can have a linux raid10 of only 2 drives, while the standard RAID 1+0 requires 4 drives, so this is a huge difference. I am not sure what vanilla linux raid10 (near=2, far=1) has of properties. I think it can run with only 1 disk, but I think it does not have striping capabilities. It would be nice to have more info on this, eg in the man page. Is there an official web page for mdadm? And maybe the raid faq could be updated? best regards keld - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
