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root@raidtest:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md0 : active raid5 vdf[5](S) vde[4](S) vdd[3] vdc[1] vdb[0]
      4191232 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2
      [3/3] [UUU]

Where did vde & vdf spring from? They weren't in your create command -
did you add those as spares later?

Yes

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Does this mean the raid-5 is actually initiated as a raid-4?

RAID-5 is always created with n-1 disks, with the final disk being
recovered afterwards. It's quicker to do a linear read from the other
disks and a linear write onto the final disk (creating parity or
rebuilding the data as needed) than it is to intersperse reads &
writes
on all disks and just create the parity data (for RAID5 anyway -
reconstructing the data on a RAID6 from P & Q parity is far more
expensive, so it's quicker to just generate the parity there).

ok, so do I understand correctly that the initial raid-5 build only writes data/parity to a single drive (the 'replacement')? Doing some more testing now to see what I can find…

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

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