On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 22:14 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote: > Ming Zhang wrote: > > >>I did a similar thing a while back. > >>I created the raid and waited for it to sync, I then make dd copies of the raid superblocks. > >>When I blew it up I just dd the clean superblocks back again (saved a 12 hour rebuild time) > > > > interesting to know about this. u just check the dmesg and see where is > > the sb and then u dd it out and dd back later? > > Actually, I used blockdev to get the device size and then just copied the last 64kb from memory.. > It's a bit hazy now but that's pretty close I think > :P that is a good method! thx ming > Regards > Brad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html