Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running

H. Peter Anvin
2002-11-05T19:17:48Z

Joel Becker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:51:29AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>I actually ended up using mdadm... I actually dislike it not using the
>>raidtab file at least as an option; I find the raidtab file to be good
>>documentation for what one had done.
>
>
> Well, lsraid -R can give you the raidtab back from an mdadm
> created array. This can be nice and easy documentation. In fact,
> there's no reason a boot script can't run
> 'lsraid -R -p > /etc/raidtab.boot'
>

That's nice, but I still like to be able to use the "edit raidtab then
mkraid", mostly because I think I'm less likely to screw up that way.

-hpa