Running RAID in a Fedora System

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec  9, 2003, Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo at warpdrive.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:23, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Dec  9, 2003, Hans Müller <ndof at gmx.li> wrote:
>> 
>> > raid 10 when 1 disk in the raid1 and 1 disk in the raid0 part fail
>> 
>> This claim doesn't make sense.  There's no such thing as the raid1
>> and raid0 parts.  RAID 10 is a RAID 0 array built atop of a collection
>> of RAID 1 arrays.

> I always thought that RAID 10 was just a mirrored RAID 0 set.

Nope.  This would be a silly arrangement, since then, if you were to
lose *any* disk in each RAID0 array, you'd lose everything.  With
RAID0 of RAID1s, for the same hardware, you get a far more
failure-resilient system.

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