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Hi all! |
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I was wondering if it is possible to introduce RAID 1 (i.e. mirroring of |
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a spare partition to be precise) into a running system? Let's assume |
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there is a disk A with partitions A1 and A2. A1 carries a fully |
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functional Gentoo, A2 is a spare partition. Kernel is 2.6.12.5 with Raid |
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stuff enabled. |
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Now I'd like to add a disk B (identical to disk A), duplicate the |
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partition layout from A and start mirroring A2 to B2. |
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Now let's also assume that A2 and B2 are set to partition type fd and |
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that there's a matching /etc/raidtype like |
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# /boot (RAID 1) |
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raiddev /dev/md0 |
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raid-level 1 |
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nr-raid-disks 2 |
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chunk-size 32 |
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persistent-superblock 1 |
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device A2 |
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raid-disk 0 |
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device B2 |
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raid-disk 1 |
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Question: may I run mkraid /dev/md0 on the fly now or will that somehow |
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destroy the partition table on the entire disk A ? |
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