Hello! Is it possible to create a Radi5 with only 2 disks? (I know that Raid5 needs 3 to be really redundant) With a Raid1 I can do things like: mdadm -C /dev/md0 --force --raid-devices=1 /dev/hdb2 mkreiserfs /dev/md0 copy files from an older drive to the raid, get the old drive out and put the new disk for the raid in. then mdadm -G /dev/md0 --raid-disks=2 mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hdc2 and the raid1 is now a real raid1 (after sync) It would be great to have something similar for raid5: mdadm -C /dev/md0 --force --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdb2 /dev/hdc2 mdadm -G /dev/md0 --raid-disks=3 mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hda2 or mdadm -C /dev/md0 --force --fail=/dev/hda2 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb2 / dev/hdc2 mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hda2 i know that this is possible with raidtools and /etc/raidtab. is this possible with the recent version of mdadm or is it a planned feature (or not planned)? thanks in advance stephan -- Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie - 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
