I beleive you can make raid1's of two raid0 arrays, but you cannot make
raid0 out of raid1 arrays.
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Lawrence Dickson wrote:
> We want to use Linux raid to make a raid out of pre-existing raids, which I
> thought was possible. We tried creating two RAID-1s of 2 disks each, then a
> RAID-0 of these two joined. We finished the mkraids on the RAID-1s before
> starting the RAID-0. It said something like
>
> running md. not good
>
> and hung up the system (kill -9 would not work). Trying a raid1
> over two raid1s got the same result.
> The system is stock RH 6.0 and seems to work fine for any standalone
> raid flavor, once initrd is modified to include it.
> A second question - I seem to remember a limit of 12 disks on any Linux
> raid. Is this for real? If so is there a way around it?
> Thanks in advance
> Larry Dickson
> Land-5 Corporation
>
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