[wplug] linux software raid

Rick Reynolds rick at rickandviv.net
Wed Jun 20 14:37:39 EDT 2007


On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:

<snip original question>

>
> If you use mdadm for making a software raid, this should work  
> without any difficulty.  That style of raid puts UUID labels on the  
> drives and organizes the raid based on the UUID.  I've got a  
> 4x320GB raid 5 at home and before I came up with the genius idea of  
> putting a sticker on each drive, they never got plugged back in in  
> the same way they were before I took the system apart.
>
> --Patrick


This is great to hear.  I did in fact use mdadm to create (and for my  
monitoring) this array.

Thanks,
Rick Reynolds
-- 
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