Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-21 Thread Seb
Hello Neil, Thanks for the confirmations! It's all very clear now. Case closed. Best, Seb. On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Neil Brown wrote: | On Saturday July 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > | > Hi Neil, | > | > | > | > Could you tell me if such a mechanism exists in mda

Re: Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Seb
Hi Neil, | > Could you tell me if such a mechanism exists in mdadm? | > Or should I accept the "loss" of the 150 GB? | When you give mdadm a collection of drives to turn into a RAID array, | use bases the size of the array on the smallest device. I'm sorry I don't know what "bases" are in a RAI

Partitions with == or \approx same size ?

2007-07-20 Thread Seb
Dear all, First I'd like to thank you for the great work you've done with mdadm. It's flexible, powerful and reasonably easy to use. I have a question that seems both important for the redundancy of my RAID6 devices and too sharp for me, my friends and the newsgroup fr.comp.stockage . I think y