#Softraid software software#

Please contact Wol, Keld or Nick if you want to help. Keld Simonsen updated a lot of the information, and made good ratings for Google.Īs of September 2016 Wol is updating it to mdadm 3.3 and the 4.x kernels (mdadm 4.0 was released in January 2017). But life moved on and having tried to provide up-to-date info, the info became out of date again. This site was created by David Greaves and Nick Yeates. sig's, as this may well say 'I read the list - please do not cc me'.)Īnd please use an email client that threads correctly! Replies should be in-line or at the bottom. You should use 'reply to all' unless explicitly requested. Linux RAID issues are discussed in the linux-raid mailing list to be found at The problem is that replacing a drive may be impossible when one fails! Pretty much all these drives are shingled and are completely unsuitable for raidīe warned that array creation and use may work fine. Some of the information on these pages are unfortunately quite old, but we are in the process of updating the info (aren't we always.)ĭo NOT use post-2019 WD Red drives in an arrayĮqually, do not use post-2020 desktop drives in an arrayįor the reason, read the section on Timeout Mismatch Where possible, information should be tagged with the minimum kernel/software version required to use the feature.

#Softraid software software#

It should replace many of the unmaintained and out-of-date documents out there such as the Software RAID HOWTO and the Linux RAID FAQ.

This site is the Linux-raid kernel list community-managed reference for Linux software RAID as implemented in recent version 4 kernels and earlier.