On Thursday 15 December 2011, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> I read a long time ago that layered softraid wasn't supported, and
> when looking recently I didn't read anything which suggested that had
> changed, however on the off-chance I tried it out and it seems to work
> ok - at least in limited testing with 4 disks in 0+1 configuration.
>
> Is this just waiting to die horribly or is layered now supported?
Stacked softraid(4) volumes are not officially supported, but in most cases it
will work correctly. There are still a number of "gotchas" and potential
issues, especially with autoconfiguration (you will have to always manually
assemble the upper layers) and shutdown ordering.
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