<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">If I create RAID5 volume:<br>
mdadm --create --force /dev/md0 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=6 --chunk=1024 --spare-devices=0 /dev/sd[abcdef]1<br>
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cat /proc/mdstat<br>
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]<br>
md0 : active (auto-read-only) raid5 sdf1[5] sde1[4] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0]<br>
<span style=" font-weight:600;">588831744</span> blocks level 5, 1024k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU]<br>
resync=PENDING<br>
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