On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/01/2013 01:16 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: >> >> --layout=preserve will make it an order of magnitude faster. Read "man mdadm" >> for more details. (And "man md" to learn about things in general.) > > But will leave the array "unbalanced"--the 7th drive will never be used > for reads in normal (non-degraded) operation--reducing read performance. Does this option mean, in effect, the 7th disk is just a parity disk? So, sorta like a hybrid RAID 5/RAID4. Chris Murphy -- 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
