I have been successfully using a RAID-5 array under Windows XP using the coLinux 0.7 embedded Linux software (colinux.sourceforge.net) with a Debian setup and mdadm (and Samba to make the array available to the Windows side of the machine). I've been toying with the idea of going back to a full Linux setup, but am not sure if the headache would be worth the effort. Specifically, the folks who wrote coLinux told me that I should be able to access my partitions using cloop under Linux. But I wonder what mdadm would make of a RAID-5 array of cloop devices? Just trying to see if there's any easy way of migrating short of degrading the array, copying what I can to my remaining space, and then rebuilding everything after the conversion. TIA, Ewan - 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
