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From: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: setting up raid10 with more than 4 drives
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:41:46 -0400
Message-ID: <36e682920705292141k9aa038btb543d97cee0fa4a1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C2823CFD.31AEB%llonergan@greenplum.com>
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On 5/29/07, Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com> wrote:
> AFAIK you can't RAID1 more than two drives, so the above doesn't make sense
> to me.

Yeah, I've never seen a way to RAID-1 more than 2 drives either.  It
would have to be his first one:

D1 + D2 = MD0 (RAID 1)
D3 + D4 = MD1 ...
D5 + D6 = MD2 ...
MD0 + MD1 + MD2 = MDF (RAID 0)

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