Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 7 authors, 2013-04-02

Re: Possible to change chunk size on RAID-1 without re-init or destructive result?

From: Roman Mamedov <hidden>
Date: 2013-03-27 06:02:52

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:30:01 -0700
Jeff Johnson [off-list ref] wrote:
I have a RAID-1, two disk volume that was created with a strange chunk
size. For reasons I won't go into here removing the data and
redefining a new RAID-1 volume with a different chunk size is
presently not a viable option.
You can always fail and remove one member, make a new degraded RAID1 on it,
'dd' data from one RAID1 to the other, kill the old RAID1, add the remaining
drive to the new RAID1.

Do a full backup beforehand, of course.


-- 
With respect,
Roman

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