Thanks Bolek, I assumed this was the case, but I don't like assuming when there is a large amount of data at stake :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Boleslaw Ciesielski <<a href="mailto:bolek-mythtv@curl.com">bolek-mythtv@curl.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Matt Nelson wrote:<br>
> On one of my mythtv backend servers I host my fileserver that stores all<br>
> of my media on two raid5 sets totaling 12 drives that are all attached<br>
> via sata. These are all attached externally, and that is where my<br>
> question lies, if I connect these drives incorrectly will my raid sets<br>
> die, or does it not matter where they are connected since there is some<br>
> metadata that tells the linux software raid that it belongs to a certain<br>
> raid set?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, Linux software RAID will work regardless of the drive order. Your<br>
only order concern is the boot drive.<br>
<br>
Bolek<br>
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