Neil Brown wrote:
On Monday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if you could help a Raid Newbie with a problem
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It looks like you lost a drive a while ago. Did you notice?
This is not unusual - raid just keeps on going if a disk fails.
When things are working again you
Neil Brown wrote:
2 devices in a raid5?? Doesn't seem a lot of point it being raid5
rather than raid1.
Wouldn't a 2-dev raid5 imply a striped block mirror (i.e faster) rather than
a raid1 duplicate block mirror (i.e. slower) ?
Thanks!
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Hi,
I'm currently planning my first raid array.
I intend to go for softraid (budget's the limiting factor), not sure about 5
or 6 yet.
Plan so far: build a raid5 from 3 disks, later add a disk and reconf to raid6.
Question: is that possible at all? Can a raid5 be reconfed to a raid6 with
I'm in the process of setting up a software RAID level 1 on debian
testing with two 160 gig drives on an Asus P4P800 motherboard with
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz and 512 megs of RAM. I've been following
the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc97.html, but after
rebooting to /dev/hdc1
Just wanted to add a few more details/questions to my previous post..
In case I provided too much information in my previous email, here's a
condensed version:
1) got to step 6.2 Add the first-disk to our existing RAID device of
the rootraiddoc walkthrough
2) issued command mdadm --add /dev/md0
