Re: Newbie questions: Max Active disks, RAID migration, Compiling mdadm 2.3

2006-02-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday February 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see what I did now. Very silly. I created a RAID 5 with 4 disks then went about hot adding disks. Silly me thinking it would increase the active space. Of course with the parity being shared through the active disks this doesn't makes

Re: Newbie questions: Max Active disks, RAID migration, Compiling mdadm 2.3

2006-02-04 Thread Mike Hardy
are running - just examples of it working. -Mike Martin Ritchie wrote: Sorry if these are total newbie questions. Why can't I have more than 4 active drives in my md RAID? Why can't I easily migrate a RAID 0 to RAID 5. As I see it RAID 0 is just RAID 5 with a failed parity check drive

Re: Newbie questions

2001-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This is my first time playing with software raid so sorry if I sound dumb. What I have is a remote device that only has one hard drive. There is no ability for a second. Can I use the raidtools package to setup a raid-1 mirror on