A linux utility used to manage software RAID devices.
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Raid-5 Linux Software array, 3 drives "removed"
I have a raid array with several drives marked as removed. I want to add them back in, but am not sure how to do so.
[root@tera2 ~]# mdadm --detail /dev/md3
/dev/md3:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Fri Nov 30 07:39:25 2012
Raid Level…
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How Do I resize a partition?
I have the following FIle system setup currently. I need as much room as i can get in ./home.
root@Jm2:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 20G 7.6G 11G 42% /
udev 32G 4.0K 32G 1%…
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Hardware Acceleration for MD RAID?
Is it possible, or feasible, or even sensible to consider hardware acceleration for MD RAID?
I am referring more here to RAID6 type levels where there is a computation overhead. My thinking is that it is still disks that will provide the greater…
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RAID 1 on top of spanned RAID
Currently I have three drives with 500GB, 1.5TB and 2TB and would like to know if it's possible with mdadm to build a RAID 1 on top of the 2TB drive and the other two pooled together.
Would this work if I first created a 2TB RAID with -level=linear…
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