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Listing 1. Sample RAID-5 Configuration File /etc/raid/raid5.conf

# Configuration for RAID-5 setup
#
raiddev                 /dev/md1
raid-level              5
nr-raid-disks           5
chunk-size              8
# Parity placement algorithm
parity-algorithm        left-symmetric
device                  /dev/sdd1
raid-disk               0
device                  /dev/sde1
raid-disk               1
device                  /dev/sdf1
raid-disk               2
device                  /dev/sdg1
raid-disk               3
device                  /dev/sdh1
raid-disk               4