Thanks Paul. I think the article looks great. I would like to know how you got
the double-dash's "--" to keep from being merged into a long dash. I have
several places where I wanted the double dash, but Wordpress kept "correcting"
me.
On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 10:12 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> Yup, makes sense. By the way, I do happen to know a way to test RAID
> stuff, just in case you get the yen to play around. You can make a
> couple large files, assign loop block devices to them, and treat them
> like disks:
>
> $ sudo -i
> # for i in {0..3}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=diskfile$i bs=1M count=1024
> conv=noerror,sync ; done
> # for i in diskfile* ; do losetup -f $i ; done
>
> Now you have /dev/loop0 through /dev/loop3 that you can treat like
> /dev/sd{a,b,c,d} and make an array. When you're done, just:
>
> # losetup -D
> # rm -f diskfile{0..3}
>
> Paul
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