On Saturday April 12, mpb@hum.auc.dk wrote: > jeff millar wrote: > > Any limits on this, like when all the drive letter change at once? > > Nope. > You can put something like: > DEVICE /dev/sd[abcdef][1234567] > and > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=49d38e1a:3ae5b824:9220fe3b:5a8129f0 > in your /etc/mdadm.conf Exactly, and it doesn't matter where your drives are as long as they are listed in a DEVICE line. > > And then do > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --uuid 49d38e1a:3ae5b824:9220fe3b:5a8129f0 You don't need the uuid twice. Given the above mdadm.conf, mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --scan will work. > > > Does the command need --force? > > Not as far as I remember. That's correct. --force is only needed if there is an inconsistancy in the superblocks and you want mdadm to over-ride and fix things. Normally when you use --force you will want to explicitly list the devices to make sure mdadm doesn't do the wrong thing by mistake: mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 ... NeilBrown > > -- > Mads Peter Bach > Systemadministrator, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Aalborg Universitet > Kroghstræde 3 - 5.111, DK-9220 Aalborg Øst > # whois MPB1-DK@whois.dk-hostmaster.dk > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
