Software RAID on Centos 6
RAID devices are virtual devices created from two or more real block devices. Linux supports RAID1 and other levels. You need to have same size partition on both disks i.e. on second disk create partitions exactly the same size as those on the first disk, and set the type as fd (Linux raid autodetect). You need to use the following commands to create RAID5
I have disks :
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd
#mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
RAID buliding will be start in background hence need to check the status
to this give bellow command
# watch cat /proc/mdstat
When above shows as completed and there is no progress further
You can see /dev/md0 is ready to use.
you can create lvm with this or use simple block device
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0
use bellow command to see status details of your configured RAID
# mdadm --query --detail /dev/md0
bellow is the output of command
[root@centos ~]# mdadm --query --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Tue Mar 10 09:03:30 2015
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 4190208 (4.00 GiB 4.29 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2095104 (2046.34 MiB 2145.39 MB)
Raid Devices : 3
Total Devices : 3
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Tue Mar 10 09:06:16 2015
State : clean
Active Devices : 3
Working Devices : 3
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Name : centos.mydomain.com:0 (local to host centos.mydomain.com)
UUID : 45ee0a03:2f6ccbb7:86f4ba20:5c7b5cb6
Events : 18
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 16 0 active sync /dev/sdb
1 8 32 1 active sync /dev/sdc
3 8 48 2 active sync /dev/sdd
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