Re: [SLUG] RAID 1 to RAID5 with raidreconf

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 15:29:51 EDT


On Wednesday 13 October 2004 03:06 pm, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> Currently, there are three disks being used in a RAID1 configuration. That
> is, two for mirroring and one for a hot spare. I have purchased a fourth
> disk for the purpose of running a RAID5 with a hotspare. Alas, I've run
> into some issues with raidreconf not liking, I guess, the fact that I only
> have one array for both boot and root (/dev/md0).
>
> I like your idea, Steve. I do have a full backup, but I've never tested
> its disaster recovery capabilities, so I'm a bit nervous. However, I would
> have a full backup on the live disk, so that makes it more appealing.

Just remember to have a non RAID drive as the backup!

> /mario
>
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 14:40, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > steve szmidt wrote:
> > >>I think he was saying he only has three drives.
> > >
> > > He says "(four disks total)"
> >
> > Ah. Whoops. Pardonez-moi.
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