On Wednesday February 19, joker@astonia.com wrote: > > Performance issues aside. If I go for the software RAID10: How can I > configure the system to use the fifth drive as hot spare for both RAID1 > arrays? Is it save to add the same drive to both arrays (haven't tried it > yet)? And would you say that software RAID is stable enough to use in a > production system? This can be done using mdadm in --monitor mode. If the manual page doesn't make it sufficiently clear, ask and I will improve the manual page. mdadm is available from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html