Marius Vollmer

> both health_status and attr[8] will indicate "partial" when a raid5 lv is missing a single device. Actually, they will only report "partial" until the missing PV is removed via...

Just for the record, this just happened after growing the volume:  Either LVM2 has made fantastically bad decisions about where to put stuff, or I messed up the data...

> This isn't about preventing people from setting up unsafe RAIDs; just letting them know that what they're doing would lead to data loss... probably with a helper text warning...

New demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE4YmSRD8W4

> If the filesystem is corrupt and it has to be deleted and restored from backup, it's not supposed to be a _warning_, it's actuall a critical _error_. Good point....

> Is there a way to determine which volumes are doing what within this UI? Not really... For most RAID types, the stripes have identical roles, no? RAID10 is special,...

> Wow, this error! open_mouth Yeah, let's hope we can avoid this error. In this specific case there was not enough space to repair the logical volume, and I think...

> * Can we make formatting a part of the process, instead of a second step? (After creating a logical volume, everyone's going to want to format it with a...

>  > > (The outlines make them look like improperly styled text fields here. But I'm sure that's just a placeholder for now.) It's a placeholder, but i also...

@garrett, thanks! Yes, let's arrange stripes horizontally. As you say, that is what everybody else is doing in their RAID illustrations. However: - I don't think we need to treat...