creating a raid 5 array in linux with mdadm
i recently had a hard drive fail in my server. luckily i was running it in a raid 1 array so all of my data was kept safe. i decided that while i had a hard drive out of service that i might as well take some time to do some upgrading of my storage space. i had been just running two basic raid 1 arrays (each with two 1 TB drives) using mdadm with ext3 for my virtual machines and other assorted storage. while ext3 is a very stable file system, it isn’t know for its speed. while i certainly wasn’t running out of storage space by any means, i thought it to be smarter to upgrade while i had enough space to rearrange things. ...