md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 md: md0 stopped. md: bind md: bind md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: md1 stopped. md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: md2 stopped. md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: md3 stopped. md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md3 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: md4 stopped. md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md4 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: md5 stopped. md: bind md: bind raid1: raid set md5 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors =============================================== disko:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md5 : active raid1 sdf1[0] sdl1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sde1[0] sdk1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sdd1[0] sdj1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdi1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdh1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdg1[1] 390612288 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: ========================================= what it hasn't run yet is this striping part: mdadm --create \ /dev/md6 \ --level=0 \ --raid-devices=6 \ --chunk=64 \ /dev/md0 /dev/md1 /dev/md2 /dev/md3 /dev/md4 /dev/md5