From: Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com>
To: Mdadm <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d80f793f1003111018n3b769299m9a5bd8f4a46e2678@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B993370.2040003@redhat.com>
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
OK so you're just saying all I should change is partition /dev/sdd as
I did the rest? I don't however need to format this when installing my
Linux O.S., correct? I should just skip formatting and mount point
assignment since it's a hot spare?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 18:18 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
2010-03-11 18:18 ` Carlos Mennens [this message]
2010-03-11 18:24 ` Brendan Conoboy
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