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Mount NV+ LVM1 X-Raid set on Linux.
I have a customer with an old ReadyNas NV+ which, after many years faithful service has finally died. It appears to have blown it's PSU (Swollen & Leaking caps, charred coils etc). Searching the fo...
JoTraGo wrote:
Is X-raid in fact a variant of Raid4 with a dedicated Parity Drive?
Yes, that is how X-RAID for Sparc units works.
JoTraGo wrote:
What part is the fourth drive playing in the raid set?
It is the dedicated parity disk. Note users who started out with say two disks would have disk 2 have no partitions on it in which case disk 2 would be the dedicated parity disk.
JoTraGo wrote:
Does XRaid rely on MDADM.
No. mdadm is however used by X-RAID2 which is on our legacy 4.2.x units, legacy 5.x units and our new OS6 models.
For attempting to recover data from spare-based X-RAID please see Mounting Sparc-based ReadyNAS Drives in x86-based Linux
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