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From: Benjammin2068 <benjammin2068@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sanity Check: RAID1 with 4 members + Spare
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:58:00 -0500
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On 08/16/2017 11:52 PM, Benjammin2068 wrote:
> Hey all,
>
>
>   I'm looking to make a 16TB raid1 from (4) 8TB members + 8TB Spare.
>
> when I put in:
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>  mdadm --create /dev/md/RecordingRAID --level=mirror --name=RecordingRAID --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdl1 --spare-devices=1 /dev/sdn1
>
>
>  I end up with an 8TB RAID.... not what I'm looking for...
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> Should I be doing something different?
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> Thanks,
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>
>  -Ben
>
>
> p.s. (https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_setup doesn't show a good example of this. only 2+1)
>

Ha.. RAID10.

Ok - I need more sleep. NEVERMIND.

:P

 -Ben