Re: software raid and bcache

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2013/7/3 Jason Warr <jason@xxxxxxxx>:
> If you want md0 to be a raid1 device in the future you need to create it
> as a 2 device array with a missing drive:
>
> mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sda missing
>
> You can then add in the other device whenever you can/want.  The key
> though would be to make sure the size in blocks of the first device is =
> or smaller than the second device will be.  What I would do is create a
> fd type partition that is 1% smaller than total raw device size on
> /dev/sda just to give your self a small margin of error.
>
> parted /dev/sda mkpart primary 1.0 99% --align optimal
> parted /dev/sda set 1 raid on
> mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sda1 missing
>
> That way down the road you can add in a disk of about the same size to
> the existing raid1 completely transparent of bcache with a single command.
>
> mdadm /dev/md1 -a /dev/sdX1


Thanks. But as i understand if the second drive bigger then first i
can sync raid1 and after thet grow /dev/md0 to new size...

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