[Gllug] LVM and RAID reshuffling advice

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:21:29PM +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I would be AMAZED if the OS allowed you to create RAID5 with2 disks - that would
> seem to be a physical impossibility given the striping/parity method used.

Prepare to be amazed then; mdadm on Linux supports the creation of
degraded arrays of all kinds.  As long as you have enough disks for
it to work in a degraded state, you can create it.

Cheers,
Andy

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