SW RAID 0+1?

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 04:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > If not, is it possible to break the stripe set and make them RAID 1? While
> > the performance is better with striping, I'd like the security of mirroring.
> 
> You can't convert an existing RAID array into a different array type.

If you anticipate wanting to add mirrors later you can specify one
partition as 'missing' when you create a raid 1 arrary and it will
work fine without it, but allow adding later with mdadm.   However, if
that wasn't done when the array was created you can't change it later.

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  Les Mikesell
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