On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:42 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > So if there are 3 drives A, X, Y where A is permanent and X and Y are rotated > off-site, then I create two RAID1s like this: > > > mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 --bitmap=internal /dev/A /dev/X > mdadm -C /dev/md1 -l1 -n2 --bitmap=internal /dev/md0 /dev/Y That seems nice for 2 disks, but adding another one later would be a mess. Is there any way to play with slots number manually to make it appear as an always degraded RAID ? I can't plug all the disks at once because of the maximum of 2 ports. -- 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