Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > After a discussion with joeyh and joshk last night on #debian-boot, I > submit to you the attached patch for inclusion in d-i. It adds RAID5 > support, plus fixes a couple of trivial but important bugs in the RAID1 > code's check for the required number of partitions to build the array. I > tried my code in a vmware virtual machine and it works there. The only > real rough spot in my code is where I try to ensure that there be at > least 3 active partitions, as required by RAID5. (I didn't actually see > any such limitation in the mdadm man page, but that seems to be the case > based on what I have heard about RAID5. Maybe mdadm allows for some sort > of partial or degraded performance with fewer? Anyone know for sure?) Bug #253693 has some info on degraded mode. Applied the patch BTW, and my you squeaked in under the wire of the string freeze.. -- see shy jo
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