This will work although I have not written all the magic to make it pretty. I will at some point make this into an actual raid type so that it is a single create statement instead of several. I do not recommend using it this way.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 01:22:55PM -0800, Manuel Ravasio wrote: > I read that softraid now supports RAID0 and RAID1 only. > I'm thinking of adding two more disks to the i386 pc I wrote about in this > thread. > Would a RAID 1+0 or 0+1 supported in this case? > > I can think of a procedure like this: > - fdisk and disklabel all 4 disks with a single RAID partition > - create a RAID0 sd0/softraid0 device on, say, wd1 and wd2 > - create a RAID0 sd1/softraid1 device on wd3 and wd4 > - disklabel sd0 creating a single RAID partition > - idem with sd1 > - create a RAID1 sd2/softraid2 device on sd0 and sd1 > - disklabel sd2 with a single 4.2BSD partition > - create filesystem, mount, etc etc > > Would something like this work? > Unfortunately I have no suitable hardware available right now. > I'll try tampering with a OpenBSD 4.4 virtual machine as soon as I have a > couple of spare hours. > > Manuel > > > -- > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, > Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right > answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of > confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > -- Charles Babbage
