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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:06:44 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:51:29AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I actually ended up using mdadm... I actually dislike it not using the 
> raidtab file at least as an option; I find the raidtab file to be good 
> documentation for what one had done.

	Well, lsraid -R can give you the raidtab back from an mdadm
created array.  This can be nice and easy documentation.  In fact,
there's no reason a boot script can't run
'lsraid -R -p > /etc/raidtab.boot'

Joel

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Joel Becker
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