On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:21:06 +0300 "Majed B." <majedb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RAID is called mirror: You need 2 drives: The original and the mirror. > > You can make a RAID1 array of 2 disks + 1 spare if you wish. On what do you base this (false) assertion? If there is something in the md documentation that suggests this I would like to get it fixed. NeilBrown > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:06 AM, 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. > > > > Can anyone please help me understand this? > > -- > > 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 > > > > > -- 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
