raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
I am trying to set up raid 10 and so far with no luck. I have 4 drives, and Anaconda will not let me do raid 10. mdadm doesn't have the raid 10 personality loaded. When I create the array manually like so: 2 drives in /dev/md11 as raid1 2 drives in /dev/md12 as raid1 md11 and md12 in

Re: raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No LVM over the two RAID 1's is more like RAID 1c which is just a concatenation of RAID 1's. You don't get the striping that you get in RAID 10. That's what I guessed. Can anyone let me know if it's possible to set up a real md raid10? Do I need to custom compile

Re: raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Justin Piszcz wrote: cat /proc/mdstat is the raid10 personality installed? No, it's not. How would I go about installing it? Personalities: [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] Russ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Justin Piszcz wrote: Compile into the kernel, boot new kernel then create your RAID 10 volume with mdadm :) So a custom kernel is needed? Is there a way to do a kickstart install with the new kernel? Or better yet, put it on the install cd? Russ - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
David Greaves wrote: Ruslan Sivak wrote: So a custom kernel is needed? Is there a way to do a kickstart install with the new kernel? Or better yet, put it on the install cd? have you tried: modprobe raid10 ? David Yes, no such luck. Russ - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: raid10 on centos 5

2007-05-04 Thread Ruslan Sivak
Eli Stair wrote: You shouldn't need to build a new kernel, just extract the SRPM for the initial install (CentOS 5, no updated kernels), use the config for the appropriate kernel (SMP, UP, i386/x86_64), enable the raid10 module and do a 'make modules'. You may need to do a minor amount of