https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&feed=atom&action=historyRAID Creation - Revision history2024-03-29T09:07:15ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.24https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=4721&oldid=prevGabriel: Don't link duplicate superblock page2013-10-05T09:38:02Z<p>Don't link duplicate superblock page</p>
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</table>Gabrielhttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=4681&oldid=prevGabriel: recommend --metadata=1.22013-10-05T00:01:22Z<p>recommend --metadata=1.2</p>
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</table>Gabrielhttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=4671&oldid=prevGabriel: recommend --metadata=1.22013-10-05T00:01:10Z<p>recommend --metadata=1.2</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">You need </del>to specify the raid device to create, the raid mode (raid0, raid1, raid10, raid5, raid6 etc) and the component devices.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">As of lvm2 2.02.87 and linux 2.6.32, LVM can be used </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">create MD-RAID volumes (<tt>lvcreate --type=raidN --stripes=numstripes</tt>).  This offers a strong guarantee that the component devices won't be exposed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The answer is usually "NO". For more details see [[Initial Array Creation]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The answer is usually "NO". For more details see [[Initial Array Creation]]</div></td></tr>
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</table>Gabrielhttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=4631&oldid=prevGabriel: desync risks, superblock formats, LVM MD segtypes2013-09-19T15:50:03Z<p>desync risks, superblock formats, LVM MD segtypes</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> "Why </del>does linux raid do 'resync' when I create a clean array? Can I skip that?<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote>“Why </ins>does linux raid do 'resync' when I create a clean array? Can I skip that?<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">”</blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Gabrielhttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=2302&oldid=prevNatmaka at 14:25, 21 March 20112011-03-21T14:25:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>You need to specify the raid device to create, the raid mode (raid0, raid1, raid5, raid6 etc) and the component devices.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>You need to specify the raid device to create, the raid mode (raid0, raid1<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, raid10</ins>, raid5, raid6 etc) and the component devices.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Keldhttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=1456&oldid=prevDavidGreaves: page name typo2007-07-07T15:28:49Z<p>page name typo</p>
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</table>DavidGreaveshttps://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID_Creation&diff=1433&oldid=prevDavidGreaves at 12:50, 16 June 20072007-06-16T12:50:10Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> "Why does linux raid do 'resync' when I create a clean array? Can I skip that?"</ins></div></td></tr>
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