Re: Changing controllers strategy?

2000-03-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:47:08PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > I'm a bit cautious here as I've had a bad experience when experimenting > > with disk changing and ended up with a corrupted array. Is it just me, or should the RAID superblock include information to make disk ordering unimportant?

Re: Changing controllers strategy?

2000-03-28 Thread Piete Brooks
> I've got a four disk RAID5 setup on one controller. I want to add > another controller, but am unsure of what strategy I should adopt to > maintain the RAID integrity. You didn't mention which raid kernel code you are using. If it is recent, each partition will have `Persistent Super Block's

Re: Changing controllers strategy?

2000-03-28 Thread Seth Vidal
> I've got a four disk RAID5 setup on one controller. I want to add > another controller, but am unsure of what strategy I should adopt to > maintain the RAID integrity. > > As the order that the disks are found and identified as sda, sdb etc. > determines the RAID structure and depends on the

Changing controllers strategy?

2000-03-28 Thread Jim Ford
Hi I've got a four disk RAID5 setup on one controller. I want to add another controller, but am unsure of what strategy I should adopt to maintain the RAID integrity. As the order that the disks are found and identified as sda, sdb etc. determines the RAID structure and depends on the disk ID