On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:56 -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote:
i'd also be curious to see any responses to this. I can see
making two
stripes easy enough, but then just how to mirror them as a single device?
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Has anyone tried setting up a four drive RAID 0+1
> on Fedora Core using the installer tools for setting
> up custom drive partitions? After doing some benchmarks
> on a new dual quad core Xeon system, it has become
> apparent that at 8 processors certain calculations
> that thread well can show a disk i/o bottleneck
> so it might be worth exploring striping my mirrors
> with a RAID 0+1. However, I am unclear on how well
> tested the linux software raid support (and installer
> setup tools) are for such a configuration.
> Jack
>
>
Justin,
maybe this would help to understand. It's for etherblades, allright but
the principle is the same.
http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/EtherDrive-2.6-HOWTO-4.html
Calin
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