From: Ninti Systems <office@ninti.com.au>
To: RAID Linux <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RAID 5 questions
Date: 01 Aug 2004 11:27:56 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091325475.2374.11.camel@localhost> (raw)
I'm about to embark on building a RAID 5 Linux software array with 4
disks (I've only ever built 2 disk RAID 1 arrays before).
Q1: Is it true that Linux can't/shouldn't boot off a RAID 5 array?
Q2: The four disks have identical manufacturer, model and size, but two
are brand new while two have had NTFS filesystems on them. Accordingly,
if I run hdparm -g on them, two disks have these specs:
geometry = 2498/255/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
while the other two disks have these specs:
geometry = 39813/16/63, sectors = 40132503, start = 0
Is this an issue with software RAID?
Thanks
Michael Hall
next reply other threads:[~2004-08-01 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-01 1:57 Ninti Systems [this message]
2004-08-01 3:08 ` RAID 5 questions Daniel Pittman
2004-08-01 3:31 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-01 3:50 ` Alvin Oga
2004-08-02 6:01 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:08 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-02 6:55 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-02 6:09 ` Jim Paris
2004-08-02 7:27 ` Jarmo Järvenpää
2004-08-03 20:23 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-04 8:52 ` Tim Small
2004-08-01 9:33 ` Luca Berra
2004-08-01 10:24 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-03 5:19 ` misty-
2004-08-06 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-06-03 14:29 Raid " David Greaves
2004-06-03 15:13 ` Guy
2004-06-03 15:50 ` David Greaves
2004-06-03 16:43 ` Guy
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