Hi Michael,
At 15:01 12.01.00 -0800, Michael wrote:
>OK, I don't mean to beat a dead horse but......
>I am about to upgrade several old raid5 production systems to the new
>raid using 0.90 tools. I see this warning
>> > > persistent-superblock 0 # set this to 1 if you want autostart,
>> > > # BUT SETTING TO 1 WILL DESTROY
>> > > PREVIOUS # CONTENTS if this is a RAID0
>> > > array created # by older raidtools
>> > > (0.40-0.51) or mdtools!
>an a conflicting statement that says:
>> > > 1st step was done previously exept for the persistent-superblock
>> > > I set it now to 1
So where's the conflict? You want to upgrade raid5, the warning concerns
raid0 (and linear).
So yes, for upgrading your old raid5 arrays you can and should use
persistent-superblock 1
Bye, Martin
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