On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:08:32PM -0600, Ewan Grantham wrote:

I have been successfully using a RAID-5 array under Windows XP using
the coLinux 0.7 embedded Linux software (colinux.sourceforge.net) with
a Debian setup and mdadm (and Samba to make the array available to the
Windows side of the machine).

Wait - so what is the difference?

Right now, you are using md to make a RAID5 of cloop devices, on
something like a virtual environment.

Soon, you'll use md to make a RAID5 of cloop devices, on a total
physical environment.

If it's working now, how could it possibly not work?
Maybe I don't understand the situation...

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross@lug.udel.edu

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37