Re: combining 2 RAID 10 pools to one filesystem

2011-02-16 Thread Hugo Mills
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:50:57PM +0200, Gal Buki wrote: > I have RAID 10 using 4 times 500GB drives (1TB of storage). > Is it possible to create another RAID 10 with 4 times 250GB drives > (500GB of storage) and then combine those two RAIDs to one file > system so that I would be able to get 1.5T

Re: combining 2 RAID 10 pools to one filesystem

2011-02-16 Thread Chester
I'm sure this is possible if you use /dev/md's, but doesn't this basically make the redundancy of the raid10 useless? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Gal Buki wrote: > Hi > > I have RAID 10 using 4 times 500GB drives (1TB of storage). > Is it possible to create another RAID 10 with 4 times 250GB

combining 2 RAID 10 pools to one filesystem

2011-02-16 Thread Gal Buki
Hi I have RAID 10 using 4 times 500GB drives (1TB of storage). Is it possible to create another RAID 10 with 4 times 250GB drives (500GB of storage) and then combine those two RAIDs to one file system so that I would be able to get 1.5TB? If I create one RAID 10 with all 8 drives I would only