Hijacking this thread to ask another question related to softraid: is it possible to disassemble a RAID volume? I wanted to test RAID0, typed 1 instead, searched the manpages... seems the only solution is wiping metadata and rebooting?
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:55:44AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Enabled are RAID 0 and RAID 1. RAID 0 is for all intents and purposes > good to go. RAID 1 misses rebuilds (hi henning!) at this moment. > Crypto is being evaluated to ensure the crypto is strong enough to be > trusted. It will remain disabled until that evaluation is complete. > More on that one later. > > RAID 5 is a post 4.3 item for me. > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:22:42PM -0500, bofh wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008 10:17 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not just yet! > > > > > > You can boot of something non-softraid and do the rest on softraid. > > > This will be a feature I will work on once I have the initial 3 > > > disciplines ready and we can handle foreign metadata. Then I'll work on > > > booting/rooting a softraid. My todo list is still on my website if > > > you'd like to contribute. > > > > Ah! Unfortunately, my coding-fu is.... non-existent. I take it you > > want raid-0, raid-1 and raid-5? OK. I think I'm going to just live > > with a 2pm nightly rsync to the backup drive. :) > > > > > > -- > > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk > > "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." > > -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. > > "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or > > internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks > > factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford > > learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
