I realise if it is possible its not going to be the best solution, but a temp stop gap... What I am thinking of doing is while I save up to by my 4'th new disk for a new raid 6 setup (4 drive raid 6, currently has 3 disks 1 missing) is it possible to use 3 existing smaller disks, create a raid0 across them and then add the resulting /dev/dmX as "a disk" where the currently missing disk is marked as missing. EG. /dev/md7 ... /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 missing mdadm create /dev/md8 raid0 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 mdadm --add /dev/md7 /dev/md8 If it is possible do I need to make sure the order in the conf file first lists the /md8 then the /md7 or will mdadm see that a raid contains a raid as a disk and then waits for it before assembling. -- 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
