From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Luter Subject: Re: Creating in degraded mode... Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:57:13 -0600 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030226165713.GG15283@smeagol> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: To: rmack@mackman.net Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html