Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:
>
>
>> Without having done any excessive research on this, I would assume
>> some of the "md" files need to be copied over with the actual
>> drives....
>>
>
> My experience with recent mdadm (on Debian) is that if you provide the
> UUIDs in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, it can scan the partitions and
> reassemble the raid automatically. Again, on Debian, upgrading from an
> older mdadm was fairly seamless.
>
> If you have a couple of spare disks, I'd install FC4 on them with RAID 1
> and perform the upgrade. See what is required to do the move before
> doing it live on your production box.
>
> Some people I have a lot of respect for prefer software Raid to hardware
> raid in larger corporate environments because moving as much as possible
> to software gives you more flexibility in how you can operate things and
> removes the RAID card as a Single Point of Failure.
>
Excellent idea.....
I have VMware server running on my main box.... Therefore I think I'll
play the scenario there....
Petri
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