On Thursday March 10, flame@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > I have an installer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/terraformix/) that > creates Raid 1 arrays, previously the arrays were created with mkraid > using the --dangerous-no-resync option. I am now required to build the > arrays with mdadm and have the following questions ; > > 1) Is there an equivalent of --dangerous-no-resync in mdadm ? No, though there might be one day, in which case it would be --assume-clean (which works with --build, but is currently ignored for --create). > > 2) Can I just go ahead and install onto a newly created RAID 1 array > without waiting for it to resync ? Yes. > > 3) Can I just go ahead and install onto a newly created RAID 5 array > without waiting for it to resync ? Yes. > > Thanks in advance. You're welcome. NeilBrown - 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