thomas62186218@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I am struggling with an issue on an Ubuntu 8.0.4 64-bit system. The > system has 12 SATA drives. I create a RAID 5 array using mdadm as follows: > > mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -n12 -l5 -c128 /dev/sd[b-m] -R -f > As a side note, what you are about to do is sheer madness. At least use RAID6. Search for raid5 in the list archives for a number of discussions why using RAID5 with a large number of disks is rather shortsighted. HTH Peter -- 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
