Well, I will remake my question to not scare possible "answerers":

How to move a SL6.0 system with md raid (raid per software), to another
server without mantaining the raid per software?

Thanks!



2011/12/16 Felip Moll <[email protected]>

> Hello all!
>
> Recently I installed and configured a Scientific Linux to run as a high
> performance computing cluster with 15 slave nodes and one master. I did
> this while an older system with RedHat 5.0 was running in order
> to avoid users to stop their computations. All gone well. I migrated node
> to node and now I have a flawlessly cluster with SL6!.
>
> Well, the fact is that while migrating I used the node1 to install SL6
> while the node0 was hosting the old master operating system. Node1 has less
> ram and no raid capabilities, so I configured a Raid5 per software when
> installing, using md linux software (which comes per default to a normal
> installation when you select "raid"). Node0 has a Raid 5 hardware
> controller.
>
> Now I want to move the new master node1, into node0. I thought about this
> and I have to shutdown node1, node0, and with a LiveCD partition the
> harddisk of node0 and copy the contents of the disk of node1 into it. Then
> make grub install.
>
> All right but, what do you think that I should take in consideration
> regarding to Raid and md? I will have to modify /etc/fstab and also delete
> /etc/mdadm.conf to avoid md running. Anything more?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
>

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