[plug] RAID 5

[Brad Campbell]

Brad Campbell wrote:

> I currently have 2 drives on most interfaces, but a bit later I'm going 
> to get a 4 port IDE interface and would like to give each drive it's own 
> channel. If I stripe the array now, can I move the drives to different 
> interfaces later and not have to re-stripe the array?

To answer my own question, yes if you use persistent-superblocks and 
have the kernel autostart the array.
A quick test confirms that the kernel can figure out what goes where and 
  auto run the array no matter where the disks are physically located.

Sweet..

Brad