On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:08:32PM -0600, Ewan Grantham wrote: > 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). Wait - so what is the difference? Right now, you are using md to make a RAID5 of cloop devices, on something like a virtual environment. Soon, you'll use md to make a RAID5 of cloop devices, on a total physical environment. If it's working now, how could it possibly not work? Maybe I don't understand the situation... -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - 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