On Fri, February 27, 2009 4:10 pm, PGNet wrote: > hi, > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> However the 1.0 metadata uses less space than the 0.90 metadata so >> it is fairly safe to simply stop the array and then create it with 1.0 >> metadata. All your data will still be there. > > curious, is that also true for 1.0 -> 1.2 ? No. The difference between 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 is where the metadata lives. 1.0 uses a similar location to 0.90. 1.1 and 1.2 use locations near the start of the device. > >> The bitmap could get written at a different place, and could over-write >> data. So to be safe: > > got it. > >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md5 --metadata=1.0 --update=metadata >> /dev/sd[ab]2 > > fair enough. > > thanks! > -- 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
