On 2011/04/20 09:21 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Before adding sda14 to md7 with mdadm, does anyone have any comments or advice that might prevent needing to restore sdb14's content from backup?
Ping.
Pong - like I tried to hint four days ago, I think you ought to investigate how the --build option really works and how you create persistent superblocks.
Your previous reply coupled to this reply constitutes about an equal number or words to what the mdadm man page has to say about build, which is to say little better than useless. The man page ends with these words: "the Build mode should only be used together with a complete understanding of what you are doing". Investigate how and where? Why should any ordinary user trying to replace a disk with the only kind available, bigger, even care what a persistent superblock is? No ordinary user should need to understand any more than how to use YaST2 and/or mdadm to couple an old partition to a new blank space on a replacement disk to create another raid1 device. It seems just too basic & common a job to do. But such I was unable to find, and why I started the thread. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org