On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:43:02PM -0800, Mark Sams wrote: > > > > > You're using Intel MatrixRAID, aren't you? Please migrate away from > > > > > > this immediately, your data is at risk. > > Although I am not using Matrix RAID, I guess I will switch to gmirror to be > safe. Does the following approach seem valid? >
You are missing one very important step that you should make regardless of which approach you use: 0) Make a backup of any and all data that you don't want to lose (and check that you can restore data from the backup while you still have the original data.) > > 1) Break the mirror (ar0) > 2) Reboot using ad0 > 3) (from the link > http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1175552464/index_html ): > > Step 1: Use sysctl to allow the mounted disk to be modified > Step 2: Create the mirror (gm0) using ad0 with gmirror > Step 3: Modify /boot/loader.conf to load gmirror on startup > Step 4: Replace ar0 with gm0 in /etc/fstab > Step 6: Use gmirror insert command to add ad1 to gm0 > Step 7: Check the mirroring status with gmirror statusShould I just call > the mirror ar0 instead of gm0 and save doing step4? Any problem with that? > > Thanks in advance. > > Mark (Somebody else will have to answer if the above can be expected to work or not, but I suspect that it would be easier and less errorprone to do as follow: 1) Make backups of all data 2) Delete the old RAID array. 3) Create a new array from scratch 4) Restore data from backups) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"