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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:02:52 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130327120252.57c78c34@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCYAsfriik8VAPV9MVhsDtgqHTaKs3kzYoSLVQHaiYKfzjXZw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:30:01 -0700
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@aeoncomputing.com> wrote:

> I have a RAID-1, two disk volume that was created with a strange chunk
> size. For reasons I won't go into here removing the data and
> redefining a new RAID-1 volume with a different chunk size is
> presently not a viable option.

You can always fail and remove one member, make a new degraded RAID1 on it,
'dd' data from one RAID1 to the other, kill the old RAID1, add the remaining
drive to the new RAID1.

Do a full backup beforehand, of course.


-- 
With respect,
Roman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-27  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-27  5:30 Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result? Jeff Johnson
2013-03-27  5:56 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-03-27  6:02 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2013-03-27 16:01 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2013-03-27 16:23   ` Jeff Johnson
2013-03-27 16:44     ` Roman Mamedov
2013-03-27 19:36     ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 19:11   ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 19:23     ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-27 20:10       ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 21:06         ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-27 22:08           ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-27 22:18             ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-31 15:56               ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-31 17:15                 ` Mark Knecht
2013-03-31 17:41                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-03-31 17:56                     ` Mark Knecht
2013-04-01  0:28                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-04-01 16:46                         ` Mark Knecht
2013-04-02  1:15                           ` Brad Campbell

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