> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: autostart with raid5 over raid0?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using raid5 with auto-detection for over a year without
> problems. Everything including the root fs is on raid5, the machine
> boots from floppy.
>
> I now want to rearrange the disks in raid0 arrays, and make a raid5 of
> these. Will auto-detection/autostart work in this case? It should in
> theory...
Nope. RAID code doesn't support layering of RAID right now. There was a
special case for RAID 1 over 0 (or the other way around?), but it turns out
that it didn't quite work properly. So not only will autodetect not work
correctly, it won't work at all. :-( I don't know what the plans are for
this in 2.4, but it would definately be cool.
Greg
