[ale] Raid

[Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net (Robert L. Harris)]

Now without reformatting.  If you KNOW you're getting a 4th drive in the
very near future and can handle some risk, you can build a RAID5 with
the 3 you have now and mark the 4th as your parrity.  When you get the
4th you can put it in and sync it.  If you do this though and one of the
current drives dies you can kiss your data goodbye.

Robert

Thus spake Greg (runman at speedfactory.net):

> I have a question on Linux software raid, if I get 3 HD's and set them up
> for RAID 5 - HD # 1 for parity and HD's 2 & 3 for storage and they are all
> 60 GB hard drives, can I add a fourth hard drive later ?  This would give me
> HD #1 for parity and HD's 2, 3, and 4 for storage.
> 
> TIA
> Greg Canter
> 
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