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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
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
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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.


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With respect,
Roman

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