From: Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com>
To: Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com>
Cc: Mdadm <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:16:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B993370.2040003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d80f793f1003111011m588e1bdem3a9d934ff0fdc35e@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/11/2010 11:11 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> Now I make the same thing for /dev/sdb& /dev/sdc. I DON'T PARTITION
> OR FORMAT /dev/sdd.
Why not partition? It's possible to create a floating spare, but it
doesn't really make sense for the configuration you've described. Just
add identical partitions on sdd and include the respective partitions on
each of your array creation commands.
--
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 18:11 Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare? Carlos Mennens
2010-03-11 18:16 ` Brendan Conoboy [this message]
2010-03-11 18:18 ` Carlos Mennens
2010-03-11 18:24 ` Brendan Conoboy
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