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Brian Stempin on 4 Jan 2011 05:28:24 -0800
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Re: [PLUG] Two-Drive Software Raid 5?
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- From: Brian Stempin <brian.stempin@gmail.com>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Two-Drive Software Raid 5?
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:28:07 -0500
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>From what I've read, mdadm will not let you create a RAID5 array with only 2 devices unless you use the "missing" command, which forces the array to operate in a degraded state. This not only slows performance, but gives you no redundancy until you add a third partition or device.
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