r233 - mdadm/trunk/debian

[madduck at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: madduck
Date: 2006-10-26 09:57:55 +0000 (Thu, 26 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 233

Modified:
   mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ
Log:
more faq work

Modified: mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ
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--- mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ	2006-10-26 09:05:21 UTC (rev 232)
+++ mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ	2006-10-26 09:57:55 UTC (rev 233)
@@ -179,12 +179,17 @@
 6b. What's the difference between RAID1+0 and RAID0+1?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   In short: RAID1+0 concatenates two mirrored arrays while RAID0+1 mirrors two
-  concatenated arrays.
+  concatenated arrays. However, the two are also often switched.
 
-  RAID1+0 has a greater chance to survive two disk failures, its performance
-  suffers less when in degraded state, and it resyncs faster after replacing
-  a failed disk. See http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ for more details.
+  The linux MD driver supports RAID10, which is equivalent to the above
+  RAID1+0 definition.
 
+  RAID1+0/10 has a greater chance to survive two disk failures, its
+  performance suffers less when in degraded state, and it resyncs faster after
+  replacing a failed disk.
+  
+  See http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ for more details.
+
 7. Which RAID10 layout scheme should I use
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   RAID10 gives you the choice between three ways of laying out the blocks on