>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Christopher A. Gantz wrote:
>
> > Also was wondering what was the status of providing RAID 1 + 0
> > functionality in software for Linux.
>
> it works just fine:
>
> [root@moon /root]# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
> read_ahead 1024 sectors
> md2 : active raid1 md1[1] md0[0] 8467136 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> md1 : active raid0 sdf[1] sde[0] 8467200 blocks 8k chunks
> md0 : active raid0 sdd[1] sdb[0] 8467200 blocks 8k chunks
>
> [root@moon /root]# df /mnt
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md2 8201416 52 7778008 0% /mnt
>
> you can mirror RAID0 arrays no problem.
>
> -- mingo
>
>
I tried to use linear to combine two raid5 partitions. It died instantly
with "got md request - not good".
-Andrew