The never-ending upgrade: RAID problem/question

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Quoting Don Levey <lug at the-leveys.us>:

> I've looked at the mdadm.conf file again, and I see no difference after
> adding the partitions again.  It's still in "recovery" mode, and I haven't
> been through a reboot, so I don't know if that will be dynamic.

Yea, I dont think that mdadm would modify mdadm.conf by itself...

> By the way - I don't know if anyone else is as paranoid as I am (or as
> messy).  Were I the organised sort, I'd have a configuration book with
> neatly printed charts of all my settings, notes on what I've done, etc,
> including the partition information on each drive in case I need to replace
> a drive in the RAID.  But I'm perpetually messy and disorganised.
> Therefore, I've just printed up "fdisk -l" for this system, and taped it to
> the inside cover of the server.  That way, if a drive goes down, I can have
> the partition information to reconstruct a new one right away (without
> having to think about how I could get it easily - "...what was that command
> again?").

I wrote a script that assumes it can use sfdisk to copy the partition table
from disk1 to disk2..  and then rebuilds the disk arrays.  But I haven't
tested the script on my FC4 machine.

> -Don

-derek

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