On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, TAC Forums wrote:
> Well, i did the following > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=5 /dev/hda3 > /dev/hdb1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 with level 0, it means that if any of your 5 disks, is bad, than you lose all your data on all drives ( unless you know what the state of each disk and its raid info is ) if you build it as raid5, and changed it to raid0 ... you just shot your data on the disks raid differences ( aka level in mdadm ) http://1u-raid5.net/Differences/ > mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 formatting is good .. but does that mean you want 5 disks that are all tied to each other, making the 5 disks look like 1 big gigantic disk c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]