I was already mourning the destruction of my Saturday, thanks to some blown deadlines, and was resigned to spending at least part of the day working. Then I made a fatal error: I read my email. There were two messages from readers that said, in essence, another article about RAID 5 was about as interesting as yet another fawning review of Ubuntu Retching Rabbit or Pooping Penguin or whatever the newest coolest release is, and RAID 5 has some serious flaws anyway, and if I really wanted to be hip and helpful I would write about RAID 10.
So I did some research, and lo, RAID 10 did grab my attention, and I toiled late into the night trying to develop a fairly foolproof howto for setting up a RAID 10 + LVM array on a new clean Linux installation. Most Linux installers support RAID 0, 1, and 5, but not 10, drat them.
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