[arch-general] Software RAID w/ 4 Drives Fails

Dwight Schauer dschauer at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 13:15:25 EST 2010


Can you add a drive to an array after it has been built?

I know you can add a hot spare, or remove a drive and add another, but I did
not think you could increase N, where the size of the array is N-1 * size of
each drive. How is the raid going to know which is data and which is parity?

Of course I could be wrong.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Louis Brazeau <lbrazeau at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> snip
>
> >  When I reboot the system I lose
> > keyboard and it asks me to enter a run level. Obviously I can't
> > troubleshoot more because I have no keyboard.
>
> snip
>
> >
> > Any tips?
> >
>
> Sorry I can't help you with your RAID. I have a RAID 5 with 3 drives
> and like you said, that works.
>
> About loosing your keyboard. Do you have a USB keyboard ?
> If so, do you have "usbinput" in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ?
>
> --
> Louis Brazeau
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