On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:45:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Yes, I had considered doing that. And I'm sorry to keep harping on the > > same question, but I thought that RAID5 was capable of having multiple > > partitions in one array; is it? > > Hmmm. I didn't think it was possible, but evidentally it is; according to > the md(4) man page: > > : KERNEL PARAMETERS
... > > I just tried this under Qemu (running Ubuntu), and it worked: > > mdadm --create /dev/mdp0 --auto=mdp --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/hdb1 > /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 > > It creates four partition devices, /dev/mdp0p1, /dev/mdp0p2, /dev/mdp0p3 > and /dev/mdp0p4. Exactly what I was wondering. Hopefully debian-installer will allow creation of multiple partitions in a single RAID array when Etch is released. (Until then, I have some learning about mdadm to do) > Might not necessarily work from the Debian installer though. Perhaps > you'll have to go into a shell window and do the above by hand... Right. And (from what little I've seen) mdadm is rather user-friendly, so that should help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]