On Thursday November 13, michael@insulin-pumpers.org wrote: > > > > If you want the spare to be in-sync with the rest of the array, then > > it is not a spare, it is full member. > > > > i.e. instead of making a RAID1 array with 2 drives and one space, > > make it with three drives and no spare. > > > > NeilBrown > > > Can you really make a 3 partition raid 1 with no spare???? And all 3 > partitions will remain in sync??? I haven't dug into the kernel Certainly you can. There is nothing magic a "2" in raid1. You can have a RAID1 array of 27 drives if you like and they will always be kept in sync. > ..... but wadda I know??? enough to ask questions, which is a good start. 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
