*On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 19:16, Stuart Jansen wrote: * *> You must have an old version, the man page on RHEL6 does.*
* * *That figures. Someone should tell the guys at linuxmanpages.com to update their pages. Meanwhile, since I don't have access to RHEL6 at the moment, can someone tell me if this notation is valid for the mdadm.conf file?* * * *DEVICES /dev/sd[bcde]1* *ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sd[bcde]1 level=10* *MAILADDR [email protected]* * * *Specifically I want to make sure the brackets are valid within the ARRAY line as well as the DEVICES line. In the mdadm.conf man page I see the brackets in the examples for the DEVICES line but not in the ARRAY line. Also, is there a way to specify hot spares in the ARRAY line? I have not seen one listed and I'm curious if it is possible or even needed. Suppose, just for safety and extra precaution, I have /dev/sdf1 that I want to be a hot spare. According to the linuxmanpages.com page on mdadm I can set it up using something like this (guessed a bit since the page says raid10 isn't supported):* * * *mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 10 /dev/sd[bcdef]1 -n 5 -x 1 --auto=yes * * * *and it should create a raid 10 set on /dev/sdb1, sdc1, sdd1, and sde1, along with a hot spare on sdf1. Could I do the same in my mdadm.conf file, maybe like this:* * * *ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sd[bcdef] spares=1 level=10* * * *Or would mdadm choke on that? Given that I've got basically zero experience with mdadm this is all new to me so I'm sorry if I'm asking dumb questions. I'm just asking what occurs to me and that I can't seem to figure out on my own by looking at the linuxmanpages.com stuff while trying to get this whole thing setup in my head and in my notes. * * * *Thanks for your help folks!* *--- Dan* On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 14:16 +0530, Dan Egli wrote: > > I was examining the man page for mdadm that I found online and noticed > it doesn't > > mention raid 10 at all. > > You must have an old version, the man page on RHEL6 does. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
