[Gllug] LVM and RAID reshuffling advice

[John Hearns]

2008/11/20 Jon Dye <jon at pecorous.co.uk
>
>
> I have 2 drives currently but if later I decide to add another to the array
> can I create a RAID5 now with only two disks and later add another disc or
> should I stick with RAID1 and work out what to do later.  The RAID HOWTO
> casually suggests RAID5 is for three or more disks but I can't seen any
> reason why based on the description of how it works.
>
> Yeah, it might be possible.
But you're going to be rubber ducked if you lose one drive out of two, and
try to reconstruct parity.
(AFAIK)
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