Example -- Creating a RAID5 Metadevice of Three Slices

# metainit d45 -r c2t3d0s2 c3t0d0s2 c4t0d0s2
d45: RAID is setup

The RAID5 metadevice d45 is created with the -r option from three slices. Because no interlace is specified, d45 uses the default of 16 Kbytes. The system verifies that the RAID5 metadevice has been set up, and begins initializing the metadevice.

You must wait for the initialization to finish before you can use the RAID5 metadevice.