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From: Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:48:08
Message-Id: 200510301040.40322.mike@gaima.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 10 help by Qiangning Hong
1 On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:42, Qiangning Hong wrote:
2 > > Did you use mdadm to make the arrays?
3 >
4 > No, I create /etc/raidtab by hand and run mkraid for each md device,
5 > following the steps of
6 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID
7
8 You can ignore any howto that tells you to use raidtab, it's almost completely
9 unnecessary.
10
11 Use mdadm to create a RAID10 array, not a RAID0 of 2 RAID1s.
12 If you have the drivers all compiled in, and give the partitions the correct
13 partition type (fd, linux raid autodetect), they'll get built by the kernel
14 on startup.
15
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