Leon Woestenberg wrote: > David, > > thanks for all the advice so far. No problem :) > In first instance we were searching for ways to tell mdadm what we > know about the array (through mdadm.conf) but from all advice we got > we have to take the 'usual' non-syncing-recreate approach. > > We will try to make disk clones first. Will dd suffice or do I need > something more fancy that maybe copes with source drive read errors in > a better fashion? ddrescue and dd_rescue are *much* better. I favour the gnu ddrescue - it's much easier. But sometimes, on some kernels with some hardware I've had kernel locks that dd_rescue (eventually, after many minutes) times out from. The RIP iso is a good place to start. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ David - 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
