Re: [gentoo-user] RAID6 for / ?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 09.12.2010 15:14, schrieb Neil Bothwick:

> I don't bother with a separate /boot, especially when / is separate
> anyway. I'd use / (including /boot) as RAID1 on all the disks, then the
> RAID6 LVM for everything else. Otherwise you have to mess around with
> initrds or scripts to mount / from the LVM.

I never did RAID1 with more than 2 disks, you suggest something like:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=6 /dev/sd[abcdef]1

?

This would result in /dev/md0 having a usable size of 3 disks?

Thanks, Stefan