On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 15:27:55 -0500, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:19 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > The advantage of doing this is that an element of a raid array has slightly > > less space available than it would otherwise. So that changing to a raid > > array later is not easy to do. The alternative is to manually set up the > > device yourself, but it is easy to make mistakes do that as you don't get > > the defaults from anaconda any more. > > ... and while I'm not really a fan of making it so that you can easily > set up non-complete arrays as might have been noticed over the years, > I'm *not* against actually leaving the 64k or so at the end of the > device so that you could turn it into a RAID array later. That might be an ever better solution. For raid 1 you could just make it a raid array and then add the other disks. For other raid levels you should be able to set up a degraded array and dd the block device over. Afterwards the space could be used to complete the array. I think as long as fstab mounted things by label switching wouldn't be too hard. Probably just booting in rescue mode and running mkinitrd? _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
