James,
Thanks for a (mostly) clean step by step! I used this for an
installation I had and I was fairly pleased with the results. However I
got a little confused by your use of "old" and "new" in steps 4, 6, and
8.
The result was that whenever I rebooted I had to raidhotadd the "failed"
disk. Is there any change I must make to /etc/raidtab to make the mirror
set come up automatically at boot time? (Otherwise I leave a line that
says "failed" in my raidtab?)
I guess the real question is, would you take mercy on us and expand upon
your recipie for those non-cooks out here?
One other question: is there any reason not to use this method to create
a raid AFTER you have populated all the partitions on one disk of the
set?
In case you couldn't guess, for reasons totally unrelated to RAID I had
to do a total reinstall of a production server and there wasn't time to
setup the raid again. Now I want to go back and set it up, while the box
is live. (Foolish or brave?)
John Walker
