On 08/04/11 15:14, Mark Doe wrote:
maybe the official documentation is incomplete. I can confirm that creating a RAID5 worked for me. In the source code it's not disabled (i dont know C/C++, so please correct me) from what I could see.
apologies for not being clear here - if you look for 'XOR' in the code it basically shows that the degraded mode operation portion for raid5 is just a placeholder: if (rdp->status & AR_S_DEGRADED) { /* do the XOR game if possible */ } and is not yet implemented (etc) so while it might work for normal mode - it doesn't buy you much in the event of a drive failure
definetely, I am going to complete the guide on the week-end with rebuilding the array, etc as you suggested.
nice! look forward to it.