On Friday December 22, Don_Hiatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > First off, Merry Christmas everyone! :) And to you. > > Secondly, given a device that is part of an array, is there a way to figure out > all the other components if you are using the 1.2 superblock? uuid=`mdadm -Eb $DEV | sed -ne 's/.* \(UUID=[^ ]*\).*/\1/p'` mdadm -Esv | grep -B1 $uuid | grep devices= > > With SB=0.90, you could issue a "--examine" and it would report all the other > devices (in the following example, that would be /dev/sata[1-4]). However, with > SB=1.2 (included below) you aren't so lucky. :) The information you get with 0.90 is the names the devices had last time the array was assembled, which might still be correct, or might not. Unreliable information can be worse than no information. 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
