On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there any sign of RAID-1 that's non-destructive? This is making my
> life living hell right now. :)
RAID-1 with persistent superblocks will require the last few KB of your
disk for the superblock.
But besides from that, it should be quite doable to:
setup RAID-1 with current disk as failed
copy current disk data to raid (now running degraded mode because of ``failure'')
raidhotadd current disk to raid
-> now you have all data on RAID-1 with superblocks etc.
> I haven't been keeping up, so if there is a 2.2 patch or perhaps
> something in 2.3 that supports it, I would be most gracious (perhaps a method
> that isn't described in the howto?)
You want 0.90 RAID for this.
Docs: http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
>
> I would really like to be able to walk into a good portion of my
> clients and offer this, but the tedium of backup/partition/bootdisk/raid
> setup/restore is too much on a time-per-hour basis to offer them... I
> unfortunately have been having to offer "new technology" to long-standing
> UNIX clients who demand RAID-1 (which sickens me) to cover these needs since
> the price of hardware RAID controllers is even worse (and slower).
>
> Any help or kludges that can get me around this would be greatly
> appreciated.
Well, we can't have everyone using neandertal technology just because
of RAID-1 :)
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