On Thursday July 6, Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx wrote: > Currently I have 4 discs on a 4 channel sata controller which does its job > quite well for 20 bucks. > Now, if I wanted to grow the array I'd probably go for another one of these. > > How can I tell if the discs on the new controller will become sd[e-h] or if > they'll be the new a-d and push the existing ones back? No idea. Probably depends on where you plug it in, but also on the phase of the moon :-) > > Next question: assembling by UUID, does that matter at all? No. > (And while talking UUID - can I safely migrate to a udev-kernel? Someone on > this list recently ran into trouble because of such an issue.) Depends on what you mean by 'safely'. If you mean "can I change something that fundamental and expect everything will just work perfectly without me having to think" , then "no". If you mean "should it be fairly easy to fix anything that breaks, and can I be confident that my data will be safe even if something does break", then "yes". NeilBrown - 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
