Re: [gentoo-user] Converting to mirror - filesystem maintained or need to restore

2017-03-18 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks guys. I re-created md127, mkfs'd and restored the files. Was just getting confused with what is possible in solaris.

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting to mirror - filesystem maintained or need to restore

2017-03-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 5:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:29:36 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > >> IIRC when you add a device to a mirror say with; >> mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md127 --level=mirror --raid-devices=1 >> --force /dev/sdb3 >> >> I thought the filesystem is maintai

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting to mirror - filesystem maintained or need to restore

2017-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:29:36 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > IIRC when you add a device to a mirror say with; > mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md127 --level=mirror --raid-devices=1 > --force /dev/sdb3 > > I thought the filesystem is maintained and so /dev/md127 should be > immediately mountable, howev