On Monday January 3, ewan.grantham@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I are confused... > > Which perhaps should be a lesson to a slightly knowlegeable user not > to read a thread like this. > > But having given myself a headache trying to figure this all out, I > guess I'll just go ahead and ask directly. > > I've setup a RAID-5 array using two internal 250 Gig HDs and two > external 250 Gig HDs through a USB-2 interface. Each of the externals > is on it's own card, and the internals are on seperate IDE channels. > > I "thought" I was doing a good thing by doing all of this and then > setting them up using an ext3 filesystem. Sounds like a perfectly fine setup (providing always that external cables are safe from stray feet etc). No need to change anything. NeilBrown > > >From the reading on here I'm not clear if I should have specified > something besides whatever ext3 does by default when you set it up, > and if so if it's something I can still do without having to redo > everything. Something I'd rather not do to be honest. > > Thanks in advance, > Ewan > --- > http://a1.blogspot.com - commentary since 2002 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html