On Wed, 7 May 2003, Herta Van den Eynde wrote: > First of all, is there any documentation on mdadm other than the man > pages? I currently have 2 systems with raid devices set up using the > mkraid, and would like to know what I'd need to do to convert them to mdadm. The man pages (and supporting docs) are comprehensive. If you are not finding something in the man page for madm try looking at the manual pages for mdadm.conf(5) and md(4). You might also want to look in /usr/share/doc/mdadm for some additional info. There's also this O'Reilly Network article (*cough*): http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html You don't need to 'convert' your arrays. You can just begin using mdadm to manage existing arrays, assuming you are working with current versions of all the tools and the md driver. Simply stop using raidtools and /etc/raidtab. If your arrays are not set to autostart, you will have to edit your init scripts to call mdadm and activate arrays much in the same way that raidstart would have been called. The best place for you to start is looking at how to generate an /etc/mdadm.conf from your existing arrays. This is well docummented in the texts cited above. -- Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek - 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
