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From: Jim Santos <iluvgadgets@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Moving RAID1 disks between systems
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:58:21 -0400
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> You should have no troubles reassembling the array on a new machine.
> From what I understand, md raid doesn't depend on device names for
> assembling arrays, it has some internal UUID's to distinguish which
> array a member disk belongs to.
>
> mdadm --assemble --scan is pretty much all you need (and won't break
> anything in the process)
>
>
Is there a way to rename md devices?  It would be useful in general and
maybe necessary if assembling the arrays from the other system causes
md device name collisions