SW RAID 0+1?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 03.01.2005 schrieb Mike McMullen um 4:20:

> I have an FC2 system with / mounted as a RAID 0 md device. It's two 
> 73GB partitions on separate IDE controllers. Performance is pretty good.
> 
> I've decided I'd like to mirror the stripe set. Is this possible with s/w raid?

As far as I can tell: no. See for instance

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

> If not, is it possible to break the stripe set and make them RAID 1? While
> the performance is better with striping, I'd like the security of mirroring.

You can't convert an existing RAID array into a different array type.

> Mike

Alexander


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