On Wednesday 13 October 2004 17:43, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 04:07 pm, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 15:29, steve szmidt wrote:
> > > 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!
> >
> > I thought it was an fdisk'd 0xfd (RAID autodetect) drive as a backup, and
> > the md driver handles the relaying of the filesystem (ext3 or otherwise)?
> > It's supposed to be a bare disk?
>
> The thing to remember is that your RAID 1 drive may not be accessable when
> you got the RAID 5 system running.
>
> To make sure you don't have a problem later, make it a plain ext3 drive.
> Then mount it to something like /opt/backup.
>
To make it a "plain ext3 drive," you mean make it an fdisk type 0x83
partition? I've changed partition types on the fly with no problems except I
had to reboot.
/mario
> > /mario
> >
> > > > /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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