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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:17:00 -0500
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Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      I guess I should have been clearer in my last message.  I want to do
> software mirroring and striping.  Not a hardware RAID setup.  I've done the
> mirroring on system/OS/boot drives, 2 drives on 1 controller.  Like I said,
> that works great.
>      Now I want to try mirroring 2 drives across 2 controllers and then mirror
> another 2 drives across the same controllers.  Finally, I want to stripe the 2
> mirrors together and do all this under SL3 software.  And I want to do this
> for the entire OS.
>      Am I asking for too much?

Will there be any hardware mirroring involved?  Or do you want this 
completely software?

I think this sounds essentially like raid 10 isn't it? A stripe across a 
mirror.

Troy
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