Additional Resources

For more information on RAID, refer to the following resources.

Installed Documentation

mdadm man page - A manual page for the mdadm utility.

mdadm.conf man page - A manual page that provides a comprehensive list of available /etc/mdadm.conf configuration options.

^[1] A hot-swap chassis allows you to remove a hard drive without having to power-down your system.

^[2] Parity information is calculated based on the contents of the rest of the member disks in the array. This information can then be used to reconstruct data when one disk in the array fails. The reconstructed data can then be used to satisfy I/O requests to the failed disk before it is replaced and to repopulate the failed disk after it has been replaced.