Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
> Or you can create raid0 with partitions on both drives (sda1+sdb1) > and "mirror" it on the second set of partitions on the same drives. > But then you do not have any protection from total disk failure > you'd normally expect from raid1. Only some very little protection > against a sector failur

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jarry
Jim Cunning wrote: RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was able to create it first with one drive missing and then add the second, which sync'ed without problems. Question is not "does it work", question is "does it make any sense?" You can either create raid0 strip with two par

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Jim Cunning wrote: > > On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! > >> the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I > >> hate initrds. > > > > RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Jim Cunning wrote: > On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! >> the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I >> hate initrds. >> > > RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is > > beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned > > two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would li

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning > to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks > into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, > make them bootable and aba

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
> > I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other > files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am > concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} > arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. Ho

[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Jim Cunning
I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk. I know I'll