I just finished the transfer and it went great. Thanks for all
the advice. I went with the assemble-by-uuid approach in
/etc/mdadm.conf which did very well. Especially since drive
letters danced around quite a bit between reboots. One of the
disks died during transit, and the redundancy part of RAI
Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>> It's not a RAID issue, but make sure you don't have any duplicate volume
>> names. According to Murphy's Law, if there are two / volumes, the wrong
>> one will be chosen upon your next reboot.
>
> Thanks for the tip. Since I'm not using volumes or LVM at all, I should b
Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
>> It's not a RAID issue, but make sure you don't have any duplicate volume
>> names. According to Murphy's Law, if there are two / volumes, the wrong
>> one will be chosen upon your next reboot.
>
> Thanks for the tip. Since I'm not using volumes or LVM at all, I should b
> It's not a RAID issue, but make sure you don't have any duplicate volume
> names. According to Murphy's Law, if there are two / volumes, the wrong
> one will be chosen upon your next reboot.
Thanks for the tip. Since I'm not using volumes or LVM at all, I should be
safe from this particular pro
Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
Does the new machine have a RAID array already?
Yes.. the new machine already has on RAID array.
After sneakernet it should have two RAID arrays. Is
there a gotcha?
It's not a RAID issue, but make sure you don't have any duplicate volume
names. According to Murphy's
> Does the new machine have a RAID array already?
Yes.. the new machine already has on RAID array.
After sneakernet it should have two RAID arrays. Is
there a gotcha?
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Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> I'm planning to take some RAID-1 drives out of an old machine
> and plop them into a new machine. Hoping that mdadm assemble
> will magically work. There's no reason it shouldn't work. Right?
>
> old [ mdadm v1.9.0 / kernel 2.6.17 / Debian Etch / x86-64 ]
> new [ mdad v2
I'm planning to take some RAID-1 drives out of an old machine
and plop them into a new machine. Hoping that mdadm assemble
will magically work. There's no reason it shouldn't work. Right?
old [ mdadm v1.9.0 / kernel 2.6.17 / Debian Etch / x86-64 ]
new [ mdad v2.6.2 / kernel 2.6.22 / Ubuntu 7.10 s