Hi chris On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:53:25AM -0600, Chris Lobkowicz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pardon the noise, but I'm wondering if softraid supports nested raid types? > > Specifically, I'm looking to do a raid 0+1 over 4 drives. A mirror of > stripes. > > wd1 & wd2 would be striped to stripe0 > wd3 & wd4 would be striped to stripe1 > > stripe0 would be mirrored to stripe1. > > > Is this even possible with bioctl?
As far as I know this is not possible. But you can configure raid 1 with with 4 disks according to the man page. -Remi > > I'm currently assembling my hardware, and I would like to at least ask a > high-level question before digging into the low-level areas. > > > The reason I ask, is the softraid and bioctl man pages do not mention > nesting capabilities. Or, am I going about this the wrong way and should > I concatenate wd1+2 & wd3+3 and then mirror? > > I'm not looking to create a bomb-proof solution, just something to > create a little bit of fault tolerance in my home data store. > > And lastly, can I create my wd1+2 stripe, populate the data, then create > my second stripe & mirror and rebuild/cross pollinate? > > Thanks > Chris > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQMkFVAAoJEFxdNdJhPdR3O2cH/28PHfw4ZNgHzjqNM0+IceAj > nxl/bN3j3B781FM6WzPDiApp4qBpn8MdaU13aVzBH5PYHszYKYBcSpfGuYWZxvt7 > gA1wkTQr7hwuMImLR4E5QoyeVY241xf/rET2e7uM7PXEQmz8TtziJV/SQkM+Dbvu > jtZzw9rgL5FkKU+uxXj0HFJtVGOQB3tI/tRoXQMoEmhaA2jfpwfK9Uc8L6/Prlvk > VSTP28x0EabiXAlXaaZhrrXWt5t7SppDo9IZlOl12+822C390IDFUHG3fvCOpJD9 > 6pDxq0lZxdl2aW8+vwIxF9vgVjsmlPsNQ1nMcYhiJ9IzIFfjbVqaGKZz67PF1JQ= > =0tGa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
