On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:58:08 +0530, Anshuman Aggarwal said: > prevents it from directly recognized by file system code . I was > wondering if Split RAID block devices can be made to be unaware to the > RAID scheme on top and be fully mountable and usable without the raid > drivers (of course invalidating the parity if any of them are written Well, there's two basic cases: 1) You have one device and you're adding a parity device - which is basically just creating a raid-1 mirror when you get down to it. 2) You have some collection of devices in a stripe/concat/whatever, and are adding a parity device. This only works if the existing stripe/concat is already functional *without* the parity device (which implies that said stripe or concat has to be an already-supported structure)
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