From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing partition types safe? raidtools to mdadm migration
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:20:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17905.6357.483367.649579@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Simon Matthews on Thursday March 8
On Thursday March 8, simon.d.matthews@gmail.com wrote:
>
> So I should be safe in just removing the raidtools package and
> installing mdadm?
>
Possibly.
A significant difference is the way arrays are assembled at boot time.
raidtools depended on raidstart (which never worked reliably and
doesn't work at all with recent kernels) or type-FD partitions,
which I assume you weren't using.
mdadm has a lot more flexibility. You can still use type-FD
partitions if you want, or you create /etc/mdadm.conf with roughly the
output of
mdadm -Ds
though it is worth understanding the contents of that file and making
sure it is what you want.
NeilBrown
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-09 6:39 Changing partition types safe? raidtools to mdadm migration Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 7:02 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-09 7:20 ` Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 7:22 ` Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 8:20 ` Neil Brown [this message]
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