Well that is one way of doing it but you can cheat by recreating the disk using the noauto flag (-C n). In fact when I actually will write the delete that is all it essentially will do unless the user selects "force" and then I'll clear the metadata area as well.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:44:18PM +0100, Pierre Riteau wrote: > Hijacking this thread to ask another question related to softraid: > is it possible to disassemble a RAID volume? > I wanted to test RAID0, typed 1 instead, searched the manpages... > seems the only solution is wiping metadata and rebooting? > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:55:44AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Enabled are RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 is for all intents and purposes > > good to go. RAID 1 misses rebuilds (hi henning!) at this moment. > > Crypto is being evaluated to ensure the crypto is strong enough to be > > trusted. It will remain disabled until that evaluation is complete. > > More on that one later. > > > > RAID 5 is a post 4.3 item for me. > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:22:42PM -0500, bofh wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 2008 10:17 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not just yet! > > > > > > > > You can boot of something non-softraid and do the rest on softraid. > > > > This will be a feature I will work on once I have the initial 3 > > > > disciplines ready and we can handle foreign metadata. Then I'll work on > > > > booting/rooting a softraid. My todo list is still on my website if > > > > you'd like to contribute. > > > > > > Ah! Unfortunately, my coding-fu is.... non-existent. I take it you > > > want raid-0, raid-1 and raid-5? OK. I think I'm going to just live > > > with a 2pm nightly rsync to the backup drive. :) > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk > > > "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." > > > -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. > > > "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or > > > internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks > > > factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford > > > learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
