Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Tim Nufire wrote: > What I really want is RAID16 since it has incredible reliability along with > the low impact failure modes of RAID1/RAID10... Which brings me back to my > original question.... Can I create a RAID6 array on top of DRBD devices. I > already have the DRBD mirrors setup and know how to create RAID10 using LVM. > I can use mdadm to create a RAID5/6 array on top of DRBD volumes and > everything works on the initial node. The problem is that I can't assemble > the array on the mirrored node :-/ Have you failed the DRBD devices over to the backup node before re-assembling the array (e.g. by shutting down the primary node)? If you are running in primary/secondary, the secondary devices won't work until they become primary. I don't think you can run DRBD in primary/primary if you are running md on top. Gordan