Re: 2.7 thoughts

[Matt Simonsen]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 23:19, Stuart Longland wrote:
> 	- Software RAID 0+1 perhaps?
> 
> 		A lot of hardware RAID cards support it, why not the
> 		kernel?  By RAID 0+1 I mean mirror-RAIDing two (or more) 		stripe-RAID 
> arrays.  (Or can this be done already?)


You can do this now (as you rightly suspected). 

Just create 2 raid 0 arrays (md0, md1). From there create md2 as a RAID1
array using /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. Create the filesystem and you've got
yourself RAID 0+1. 

You can do RAID 5+0 or any other wild combo you could think of.

Matt

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