From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Relabeling UUID Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:42:49 -0500 Message-ID: <457F92D9.6020105@tmr.com> References: <457F3BAD.6060206@tmr.com> <17791.18766.36228.208220@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17791.18766.36228.208220@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Linux Raid List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday December 12, davidsen@tmr.com wrote: > >> I needed to move an array to other drives, and because of the way the >> array is used, want to keep the UUID on the new array. It doesn't appear >> that uuid= works with create (why?), or that stopping the array and then >> using assemble with uuid= will renumber the array in the superblock. >> > > --update=uuid > > >> What's the correct way to do this, or is it broken? And why can't I >> specify uuid= in create? >> > > Added to my 'todo' list - but no promises. Before I tell you that doesn't work, could you provide a complete command line you expect to work rather than just one argument? Showing the array designator and the location of the actual new UUID to use? We think we have tried every combination of array name or array components in every order, and other than a fine collection of error messages have not had any luck. We would look at the example but found none. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979