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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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To: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
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Subject: Re: AARGH! Please help. IDE controller fsckup
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Jakob Oestergaard wrote:

>>>>But ... with persistent superblock - is it possible to fsckup the raid?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>You're root, it is indeed possible  :)
>>>      
>>>
>>er - yes. I more meant like 'automagically'
>>    
>>
>
>It will only automagically screw up your arrays if you shuffle disks
>between machines (mix several RAID arrays from other systems in one
>system)  (you can of course move all your disks to one new machine, if
>it has none of it's original RAIDed disks left).
>
>Just don't mix disks with persistent superblocks from multiple machines
>into one single machine.  Unless you know exactly what you're doing.
>  
>
Could it be some kind of idea to 'sign' the disks with some hash out of 
hostname and  IP or something?

roy


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