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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 11:23:57 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Reconfiguring one SW-RAID when other RAIDs are running
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Joel Becker wrote:
> 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'
> 

That's nice, but I still like to be able to use the "edit raidtab then
mkraid", mostly because I think I'm less likely to screw up that way.

	-hpa


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