From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: turbo@weasel.com Subject: nested raid possible? Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:38:39 -0400 Message-ID: <8585506.1183693119573.JavaMail.root@wombat.diezmil.com> Reply-To: turbo@weasel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I have a raid-5 array of six 250gb hard drives. I just bought four 500gb hard drives. I know I can take the six drives and make three raid-1 arrays of 500gb. After doing that, can I make a raid-5 array consisting of the three raid-0 arrays, and the four 500gb hard drives? Thanks, Jeff -- This message was sent on behalf of turbo@weasel.com at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/topic.html