[m.allan noah]
> > The howto says try mkraid --force. With a 2 drive (2/4) will I lose
> > everything.
>
> why do you want to make a two drive raid5? that makes no sense. use raid1.
If you *read* his message you'll notice that he has 4 drives in the
array and lost 2 of them (2 still active). :)
> yes- if there is data already on the drive, running mkraid is a pretty sure
> way to destroy the filesystem, since part of the file system will be
> overwritten.
Incorrect. if it was a s/w raid device already, then nothing gets touched
except the raid super-block that was already there. Resync may occur,
but there are mkraid options to keep that from happening too.
James
