>> 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. Actually No. If it is RAID-5 as you claim, then currently it is effectively a RAID-0. RAID-5 is Striping with Distributed Parity and requires a *minimum* of 3 disks. Two disks, regardless of how you got there, is considered a degraded state. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- 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
