Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd copies of the different nodes (IE.. dd copy of sda paired

[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-11-2008 11:36 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd copies of the different nodes (IE.. dd copy of sda paired

[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-12-2008 10:28 AM Les Mikesell spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: I'm curious as to why 2 complete dd'd copies don't pair at boot. One comes up running and it does work to mdadm --add the partner partitions and after the resync they do automatically pair at boot. Are they dd copies of the different nodes (IE.. dd copy of sda paired

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: You can't beat dd for getting everything exactly the same regardless of what you changed - or just splitting the mirrors and letting each sync to new partners but then you have to reinstall grub. I prefer clonezilla for non-raid configurations but most of the machines

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: You can't beat dd for getting everything exactly the same regardless of what you changed - or just splitting the mirrors and letting each sync to new partners but then you have to reinstall grub. I prefer clonezilla for non-raid configurations but most of the

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-12 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:14 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: You can't beat dd for getting everything exactly the same regardless of what you changed - or just splitting the mirrors and letting each sync to new partners but then you have to reinstall grub. I prefer

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions? you can 'dd' the MBR and then

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: snip 'mdadm' writes a listing of the devices in the array to the md superblock and orders them by number,major,minor. You cannot add another device to the array with the same tuple. Isn't this updated at detect time so the device minor's should always be

[CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-10 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-10-2008 9:59 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: Les Mikesell wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the

Re: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Silva wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions? you can 'dd' the MBR and then re-add

RE: [CentOS] Re: raid1 disk format?

2008-06-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: Scott Silva wrote: If you have a disk with several partitions set up as members of a raid1 md devices, can you make a dd image of that disk to replace its matching drive with identical partitions or are there differences between the mirrored partitions? you