Re: [CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/1/20 3:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: If anyone can explain the exact meaning of --metadata, I'd be grateful. I think the man page is pretty clear on that one.  There are two different versions of the metadata block, and the second one (1.x) can be stored at different locations depending

[CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm regularly using software RAID for my CentOS storage servers, either with RAID 1 or RAID 6 depending on the number of disks. Here's two questions about mdadm I've always been wondering about. 1. I'm not sure about the --metadata option. Let's say I want to create a simple RAID 1 setup, I'