James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [m.allan noah]
> > > The howto says try mkraid --force. With a 2 drive (2/4) will I lose
> > > everything.
> >
> > why do you want to make a two drive raid5? that makes no sense. use raid1.
>
> If you *read* his message you'll notice that he has 4 drives in the
> array and lost 2 of them (2 still active). :)
i did *read* it. it was too vague, and the important part of the message (the
failure) was in the subject line. i mis-understood.
>
> > yes- if there is data already on the drive, running mkraid is a pretty
sure
> > way to destroy the filesystem, since part of the file system will be
> > overwritten.
>
> Incorrect. if it was a s/w raid device already, then nothing gets touched
> except the raid super-block that was already there. Resync may occur,
> but there are mkraid options to keep that from happening too.
ok- yes, if he meant to say he was having dead drives, then yes, mkraid is
ok... of course, if he did not lose those two drives at the same time, and a
write occured on one of them but not the other, then we have a different
story...
allan
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