Re: How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 11:24 AM Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:07:06PM -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> >Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid.
> >Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride
> >and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these
> >options during OS installation?
>
> In general they aren't necessary these days, as the parameters can be
> obtained from the hardware automatically. If the hardware doesn't
> support that, it probably isn't a situation where setting it manually
> will matter.
>
The hardware is very old so I don't think the OS knows that I'm using
raid 10 with 6 spinning sata disks.
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