> How easy is it to move a RAID device?
Trivial -- shut down the system, move the device, reboot !
> Specifically, I have six SCSI drives on the same controller which I want to
> split between two controllers.
With auto-detection of RAID devices, this comes for free !
[[ With SCSI this is fairly much a necessity, as each time a new device is
added to/removed from a SCSI bus, the device numbers change :-((( ]]
> Everything is mirrored, I boot off a persistent superblock array
Either you're a guru, or you may find you aren't actually *booting* off it ..
> and have my user file system on a mirrored stripe.
The auto-detect code with spot that they have moved, and juggle the numbers.
> If I set up a bootable IDE drive, can I just boot up off that,
Sure -- or a rescue floppy ...
Not sure you need to ...
> edit raidtab
If using auto-detection, raidtab is not read during normal use.
You should keep it up to date in case you need to do some work later.
> and reboot off the main one?
If you *really* boot off an array, you may need to re-run LILO.
