On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi, I'm playing with a raid 10 configuration. I don't want to boot from it so this is not the common issue you'll find in the first twentysomething google-pages.

I tried to create it with Yast. First I thought I could create 2 RAID 0 pairs like md0 and md1 and then combine them to md2 as RAID 1 so this would be a RAID 10 cluster. Tough luck. After creating md0 and md1 Yast complains there weren't any partitions left to create another MD.

Of course there is an "RAID 10" option but there one just can tell Yast which 4 partitions to use for the RAID 10. One can't tell it which partitions to pair. This might be irrelevant in case one uses 4 physical drives. In my test config there are only 2 with 2 partitions each. I know this isn't optimal but I just wan't to get the feel for now.

How can I see which partitions got combined. mdadm --detail /dev/md0 tells me only which 4 partitions are used.

Andreas, mdadm --examine /dev/sdXX will show the "Device role" near the bottom of the report. You should have devices 0 thru 3. I'm working from memory, but I "believe" device 0 is mirrored with device 1 and device 2 with device 3. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org