The Raid tools, along with most raid management/volume
management software, usually only place a small amount
of header information on the disk that does not
interfere with the filesystems built on top. This
does not apply to Veritas Volume Manager exactly.
When you do finally enable raid through these disks
within another installation, 1 of 2 things is going to
happen:
1. The raid driver automatically detect the
presence of the raid header and mount the raid intact.
2. The raid driver will need to be reconfigured for
the drives and the devices remirrored.
Either way, there should be no data lost. If the
device has to remirror, though, you will have a small
vulnerable period until the mirroring completes. Just
a fact of RAID life;).
Andy
--- rhatman@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> What does "modify the header metadata" mean?
> (1) the raid is reassembled and all data is
> available and
> mounted ok for the Knoppix boot and later install of
> Fedora? or
> (2) the raid is initialized and no data is available
> and will not
> be recognized later with a Fedora 4 installation?
> (3) some other option less desirable than 1.
>
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