RAID Creation

MD devices are created using the Create mode of mdadm.

You need to specify the raid device to create, the raid mode (raid0, raid1, raid5, raid6 etc) and the component devices.

You can also configure many aspects of your array:

• device name
• name or label
• RAID-level
• superblocks
• chunk size
• rounding
• layout
• bitmap
• write-mostly
• partitionable