How to do a software based RAID 1+0?

Mark Doe mark.doe.priv at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 12:24:19 PST 2013


I wrote a wiki page about that topic here:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/

but as Greear said, today we shift more and more to FS based Raids /
Mirrors..


2013/2/26 Samuel J. Greear <sjg at evilcode.net>

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Joel Nilsson <joel at alikzus.se> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > if I want to do soft RAID10 is vinum(8) the way to go?
> >
> > The main purpose is to crank up the I/O rate without loosing too much
> reliability.
> >
> > It is intended for my personal/private file server at home, so a
> temporary loss of availability is not an issue (for now, it may change).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joel
>
> There are various options for software raid in DragonFly but a
> hardware raid controller is generally considered the most reliable
> option.
>
> Typically though in DragonFly you would hammer mirror-stream between
> disks for redundancy and utilize swapcache to acheive your throughput
> needs.
>
> Sam
>
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