On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Sam Martin <sambomar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> do you know whether i could move a raid1 vol from 32bit dist to 64bit dist?
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> On 7 February 2013 23:32, Shane Johnson <s...@rasmussenequipment.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Sam Martin <sambomar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> could it be used without mdadm? i think the suggestion was that if it
>>> went wrong the disk could still be used as the "raid" stuff was on the end
>>> of the disk?
>>>
>>> that right?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 February 2013 22:33, Shane Johnson <s...@rasmussenequipment.com>wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Sam Martin <sambomar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Pascal,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure what top-posting is?
>>>>> I hope this isn't it!
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean test whether i can bring the raid vol up by booting into
>>>>> 64bit debian from usb?
>>>>>
>>>>> i did a mdadm -e on one of the disks in the array
>>>>>
>>>>> root@HTPC-NAS:~# mdadm -E /dev/sdc1
>>>>> /dev/sdc1:
>>>>> Magic : a92b4efc
>>>>> Version : 1.2
>>>>> Feature Map : 0x0
>>>>> Array UUID : 25a729b1:71f5193b:6abe8ba9:21e698f5
>>>>> Name : HTPC-NAS:0 (local to host HTPC-NAS)
>>>>> Creation Time : Thu Dec 20 12:25:56 2012
>>>>> Raid Level : raid1
>>>>> Raid Devices : 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Avail Dev Size : 5860268032 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
>>>>> Array Size : 2930133824 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
>>>>> Used Dev Size : 5860267648 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
>>>>> Data Offset : 262144 sectors
>>>>> Super Offset : 8 sectors
>>>>> State : clean
>>>>> Device UUID : fe1998ea:8535a654:31083985:d8c560c1
>>>>>
>>>>> Update Time : Thu Feb 7 09:01:38 2013
>>>>> Checksum : ad4320a8 - correct
>>>>> Events : 51
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Device Role : Active device 1
>>>>> Array State : AA ('A' == active, '.' == missing)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the 1.2 means it's a no go in terms of running the disk
>>>>> independently of the raid vol.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Sam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:10:01 PM UTC, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>>>> > Sam Martin a ï¿œcrit :
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > Thanks for reply Pascal.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Please don't top-post.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > How would I know?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > mdadm -E /dev/<raid_member> (e.g. /dev/sdc1)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > mdadm -D /dev/<raid_device> (e.g. /dev/md0)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > cat /proc/mdstat
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > > I've just posted a question to original response, do you happen to
>>>>> know the answer?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > There are two questions.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I already replied to the first one. I don't know about the second
>>>>> one,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > but I see no reason why the RAID array would not work with a 64-bit
>>>>> >
>>>>> > system. If unsure just try it with a 64-bit live system.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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>>>>> Your output from mdadm -e on that disk show that it is raid level one
>>>> which is a mirror so you can run with one disk failed, but there is no
>>>> redundancy anymore.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Shane D. Johnson
>>>> IT Administrator
>>>> Rasmussen Equipment
>>>>
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>>> Sorry, I don't think so. From my understanding, it is still a member of
>> the raid and would need the mdadm in order to present the volume to the os
>> to see the partition info, Although, I don't know about pulling data of
>> with some sort of disk forensics.
>>
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>> --
>> Shane D. Johnson
>> IT Administrator
>> Rasmussen Equipment
>>
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> Please use reply all to keep on the list for future reference and the
enlightenment of as many people as possible.
Yes, mdadm will rebuild it as long as it supports the version that created
the volume.
--
Shane D. Johnson
IT Administrator
Rasmussen Equipment
