Thanks for your response, Roman. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:52:30AM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > I have been using RAID5 on a desktop machine using a couple of 500 > > GB drives. My original intent was to grow the array by adding more > > drives, as the need arises. > > Do you currently run RAID5 with just 2 drives, in degraded mode, or > maybe you meant something else? No, it is not degraded, it's a clean 2-drive RAID5. I know it doesn't make much sense as it is ;-) the intent was to grow the array later, relying on mdadm's grow feature. Right now, I'm guessing that it operates like a RAID1 for all practical purposes. Gilad -- 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
