Re: Device naming and raid1

http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php

you can try this with the spare drives you have.

basically what you have to do is to check whether the drive
now linked to another device name, is the reason for this
problem.

once it shows unplugged or failed you can, use your new
replacement drive and reboot.

Kindly read the comments to this article, Which is very
usefull.

On 8/27/08, Sujit Karataparambil [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Thanks much for the reply.  For the purposes of this discussion you can
assume that I've already re-established confidence in the drive, the
cable, and the controller and that the data on the drives is worthless
and I just want to get maximum uptime without causing a raid assemble
problem on the next reboot.

Good.

quoted

Any idea on my original question?  If I re-add the drive using the
/dev/sdc name will I have problems on the next boot when the drive is
named /dev/sda?

Since this seems to be block device it really does not matter.

quoted

Based on my experience with Linux and other software raid
implementations, I'm strongly inclined to think that the device naming
doesn't matter - the system will scan the drives at boot looking for

Kindly read some decent kernel documentation before you jump up and
say this. Kindly surf the net and read some decent article's before you
do any precious upgrades for now.

Sujit

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