From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Cc: Pol Hallen <polhallen@fuckaround.org>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:23:21 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1107211322160.20159@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E280AEF.4020801@hardwarefreak.com>
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Ok. Pol, keep in mind that all drives must be identical size when
> creating an array on raw disks. You said you're now working with 6
> identical WD drives so this shouldn't be an issue.
They don't have to be identical size. It'll use the smallest component
size and use that much data on all drives.
I recommend to use superblock v1.2, which is default in later versions of
mdadm.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <201107211011.40151.polhallen@fuckaround.org>
2011-07-21 10:26 ` mdadm striped parity RAID with Advanced Format drives Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 10:27 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-21 11:18 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-21 11:23 ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]
2011-07-23 3:31 ` maurice
2011-07-23 7:11 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-23 15:38 ` maurice
2011-07-23 15:58 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-23 18:03 ` maurice
2011-07-25 8:41 ` Nikolay Kichukov
2011-07-25 18:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2011-07-21 10:46 ` Pol Hallen
2011-07-22 7:13 ` Luca Berra
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