> Am 02.05.2023 um 16:45 schrieb Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>: > > Tim: >>> Briefly looking at RAID information, there are things that should be >>> unique, and there are some things that can be duplicated (not so sure >>> that they should be, though). Drive IDs would need to be unique for >>> anything that uses IDs to differentiate one drive from other. There's >>> partition and volume IDs that are used for different purposes. > > Peter Boy: >> I agree. But it’s hard not to use UIEDs and to ignore misconfigured >> UUIDs. Many Fedora tools use UUID by default, e.g. Cockpit and - if I >> remember correctly - dbus. Therefore, cloning a disc often ends up in >> more work than cloning saves. > > Since my experience with RAID is minimal (using a motherboard with > built-in hardware RAID that could not be shut-off on the drive ports I > had to use), I assume that if a mirror drive dies, you swap it, and let > the RAID do its own magic to incorporate the replacement drive into the > system, it handles filling up the new drive with partitions and data > from the other drive without cloning IDs.
Software Raid write various meta data on the drive. Therefor - as I understand the docs - you MUST NOT clone the drive. I use SW Raid on my private servers only, and luckily I had not so much drive failures so far. But SW Raid restored the drive on its own when I tested it a while ago. However, according to my memory, I had created a (empty) partition table. I don't remember if that was necessary or if it just happened. -- Peter Boy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy p...@fedoraproject.org Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) Fedora Server Edition Working Group member Fedora docs team contributor Java developer and enthusiast _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
