LVM on top of RAID5

I'm turning my old Pentium III 800 MHz box into a Linux RAID5 server. Steps are:

• Acquired four 200GB IDE drives
• Acquired Highpoint Rocket133 IDE adapter card because the motherboard does not have enough IDE connectors. I may need another one because the Software RAID HOWTO says that each drive should have its own channel instead of sharing one (master/slave) between two drives (because when a master/slave dies, it may take the correspond slave/master with it).
• Format each drive with fdisk. Create one full size partition with type FD.
• Create the RAID5 with mdadm:mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --chunk=128 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdf1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdh1
• Make the new /dev/md0 available for LVM use:

  pvcreate /dev/md0

• From the LVM Tutorial, create LVM volume group named vgdata with 32MB extent:

  vgcreate -s 32M vgdata /dev/md0

• Create LVM logical volume named lvdata:

  lvcreate -l 17885 -n lvdata vgdata

  17885 is the total number of LVM extents (at 32MB each) in my RAID. Use vgdisplay to find out how many free extents you have.
• Format logical volume with reiserfs:

  mkreiserfs /dev/vgdata/lvdata

• mount it:

  mount /dev/vgdata/lvdata /mnt/data

• Wait a heck of a long time for the RAID to build properly (may take overnight). Check /proc/mdstat/ periodically to see if the recovery has completed. The cat output should look like this:

  Personalities : [raid5]
  md0 : active raid5 hdh1[3] hdg1[2] hdf1[1] hde1[0]
  586075008 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
  
  unused devices: 

  Do not reboot your machine until the recovery is complete as it'll just start all over again.