Hello everyone, I've been using raidframe as software raid driver to handle 2x80GB in raid 1 soft, but for that purpose, I had to compile a custom kernel with software raid enabled in it. As I only knew about raidframe when I installed by box (was OpenBSD 4.1 at that time) Now, I've seen in http://openbsd.org/plus43.html something like "Re-enabled softraid(4) in GENERIC configs for all platforms.", which should mean something like "with the GENERIC kernel, you'll be able to set up a raid and install OpenBSD on it, and boot from that array" (even if I might have to put the kernel on a separate partition). Right ?
Now, the question is : is there any way to remotely (my box is in a remote securized datacenter with double code) jump from raidframe to softraid, as I've understood softraid was the future for OpenBSD ? something like compile raidframe into 4.3 kernel, boot from it, convert raid layer while running on it, then install the default kernel and reboot on the "softraid-enabled" filesystem ? I suppose I'll have somehow to convert my data on a unmounted partition, in what case I'll have to either mess with virtual drives and degraded arrays, or go in the datacenter, copy the data, and put them back on a softraid thing. Right ? Thank you for any input. Regards, nicodache
