Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday November 4, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm trying to re-create a RAID while leaving the other RAIDs -- 
>>including the root filesystem -- running, but mkraid refuses to run:
>>
>>hera 1 # mkraid /dev/md2
>>/dev/md0: array is active -- run raidstop first.
>>mkraid: aborted.
>>(In addition to the above messages, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat as well
>>  for potential clues.)
> 
> 
> I cannot offer any help on using mkraid, except to avoid it :-(
> mdadm is (I believe and others agree) much easier to use.
>   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
> 
> It is definately being maintained, not that it has needed much...
> 

I actually ended up using mdadm... I actually dislike it not using the 
raidtab file at least as an option; I find the raidtab file to be good 
documentation for what one had done.   I would prefer for mkraid to get 
fixed, if it hasn't already.

> 
>>(Also note: the raid directory on kernel.org seems to be abandoned. 
>>Unless someone speaks up I'm going to remove it.)
>>
> 
> 
> Again, I cannot comment on this directory, but would there be any
> change of getting somewhere on kernel.org to distribute mdadm??
> 

Absolutely... send a GPG key to ftpadmin@kernel.org.

	-hpa