On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Kanoa Withington wrote: > In a software RAID 1 array, each of the sub-volumes can be used just > like a normal partition+file system outside of the array and the whole > domain of software RAID, which is very nice for fault recovery. With a > hardware controller this usually cannot be done, the data on the disks > is useless without the controller. Just as an aside, I've recently had to build several near identical machines with a mirrored disk set (ie. s/w RAID1) and I used this feature to "clone" the other boxes... ie. build one with 2 disks, make sure the mirrors are syncd up, then take one drive out and use it to build a 2nd, and a 3rd, etc. each time putting in a blank 2nd disk and partitioning it as before then letting the mirror re-sync... I'm sure there may be easier ways, but this worked for me! Gordon - 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
