From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Stian Olstad Subject: Re: RAID1 question Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:15:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4E855E7F.3000800@gmail.com> References: <20110929183457.GA19871@electro-mechanical.com> <20110929192611.GA23316@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> <20110929193705.GE19871@electro-mechanical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110929193705.GE19871@electro-mechanical.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: William Thompson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 29. sep. 2011 21:37, William Thompson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:26:11PM +0100, Robin Hill wrote: >> On Thu Sep 29, 2011 at 02:34:57PM -0400, William Thompson wrote: >> >>> Please keep me in the CC. I am not on the list. >>> >>> If I have a RAID1 of 2 disks and I decide to move them to another computer >>> and recreate the raid, does it really need to do the initial recovery? >>> >> You don't need to recreate the raid at all, just reassemble it. You may >> want to update the homehost though, otherwise it will (IIRC) auto >> assemble to md_126 (or so) instead of md0. > > The reason I asked this was because a mirrored pair that I currently have is > 0.90 version and I was going to use 1.0 You'll find information about going from 0.90 to 1.0 in the archive, take a look at these links: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/34014/focus=34029 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/34424/focus=34441 -- Kai Stian Olstad