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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: Is shrinking raid5 possible?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:52 +0100
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Thomas Arthur Oehser wrote:
> Oooh, what would I want to do with "n small partitions"?  I know!  Raid!
>
> Scenario:
>
> existing:
> sda1 sdb1 sdc1 254M + 254M + 254M = 254M raid-1 /boot
> sda2 sdb2 sbc2 2G + 2G + 2G = 6G raid-0 swap
> ...
>   
Putting swap in a raid-0 will hang your computer as soon as sda, sdb or 
sdc fails.
Are you OK with that?