On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:29AM -0400, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
raiding the whole drive. This does have the drawback that any replacement drives have to be the same size or bigger than what you had to begin with.
I am missing your point here. The requirement of having a replacement drive at least as big as the original one, usually comes from the fact that a smaller drive won't be able to contain your data, not from some md voodoo. If someone here still believes that drives from different vendors with the same nominal size have different real size please read: http://www.idema.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1192 -- Luca Berra -- bluca@xxxxxxxxxx -- 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