Re: RAID1 On 3 Drives

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:06:38 -0500
Carlos Mennens <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was told by my distributions Wiki page that Grub doesn't support
> RAID 5 or RAID 6 so I would need to create a volume with three disks
> and set the level to RAID 1:
> 
> # mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sda1
> /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 --spare-devices=1 /dev/sdd1
> 
> Is this possible to mirror three identical drive partitions? I was
> talking to some co-workers and was told that I could only pair two
> drives on RAID 1.

Your co-workers are wrong, at least for md raid.  With md, a RAID1 can have
any number of devices from 1 upwards - the limit varies in different
situations but is at least 28.

Try it and see.

NeilBrown

> 
> Can anyone please help me understand this?
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