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From: Adam Luter <luterac@bellsouth.net>
To: rmack@mackman.net
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating in degraded mode...
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:57:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030226165713.GG15283@smeagol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302260819010.10893-100000@mackman.net>

Using 'missing' for the device name for the missing devices.

-Gryn (Adam Luter)

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:22:13AM -0800, rmack@mackman.net wrote:
> I currently have a 2 drive RAID-1 array.  I would like to convert it into 
> a 3 drive RAID-5 array.  I'd rather avoid raidreconf because I'v never 
> used it before.  It seems to me, that I should be able to run the existing 
> RAID-1 in degraded mode (only one drive), and then copy it's contents to a 
> degraded (only two drive) RAID-5 array.  The question, of course, is how 
> do I create a RAID-5 array in degraded mode?  After the copy, I would then 
> hotadd the other former RAID-1 drive into the RAID-5 and let it 
> reconstruct the array.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Please reply to me directly, I'm off the list for now.
> 
> Thanks, Ryan Mack
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-26 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-26 16:22 Creating in degraded mode rmack
2003-02-26 16:57 ` Adam Luter [this message]
2003-02-26 17:59   ` Kourosh Ghassemieh
2003-02-26 18:11     ` Adam Luter

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