Question : 8 disk RAID-10 on OpenSuse

Hello,

 I've been trying to do this for a week now, i'm afraid i'm not a very experienced linux user either. I've got 8 1 TB drives i wish to install in a raid-10 configuration. I'm using OpenSUSE 11.1.

 I've checked online tutorials and gone through the complete list of commands in the mdadm program on www.linuxmanpages.com. I can create an array just fine and make it /dev/md0...

however i cannot mount it, cannot change partition information or anything... Can someone give me a complete walkthrough from step a-z, that is from installation of the 8 drives, how to partition them, assign whatever system id (linux raid autodetect) and how to use the mdadm suite to configure the array and finally mount it....

 I've remove the super blocks and partitions, also re-installed opensuse, so "there never was a raid set to begin with". I'm working fresh.

Answer : 8 disk RAID-10 on OpenSuse

Uhm, inside this tool you can create raids.

Btw. if you are not aware of this fact RAID-10 is not a raid by itself its a combination two of RAID-0 arrays into a RAID-1. So Raid 0 and 1 is everything you need to be supported.