It rotates the pairs! Assume 3 disks, A, B and C. Each stripe would be on these disks: A+B C+A B+C A+B C+A B+C ...
Maybe not exactly as above, but if not, something similar. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Smith Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:19 AM To: 'linux-raid' Subject: RAID-10 with odd number of disks (was Re: Software RAID 0+1 with mdadm.) On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:50:43AM -0500, Guy wrote: > RAID10 will work with an odd number of disks! If really is cool! It will? How? Does it just make the last mirror "pair" have 3 disks or what? If so then wouldn't it be better just to not have that disk under md and use it for someting else? -- > > > The optimum programming team size is 1. Has Jurassic Park taught us nothing? -- pfilandr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
