[LUNI] Re: simple RAID question

[Ramin K]

luther rochester wrote:
>> Are you trying to have 1 disk, but have it be totlay redundant?  A 
>> Raid1 will mirror 1 disk to another, that's it.  I think the 
>> controller you have will let you build 2 mirrors, and mirror the first 
>> pair of disks to the second pair. 
> 
> 
> I just set it up as Raid 10 and it gives me 146GB of space. It seems 
> it's only using 4 of the drives, or using those 4 and mirroring them.
> 
> I guess that's all the space I'll be able to use...

The 2850 did something similar to this. If you just asked for RAID 10 it 
would use four drives. In order to use six (max in 2850) you had to make 
RAID 1 logical devices for each disk pair and then RAID 0 them all. I 
bet it's the same thing in the 2950.

Ramin