2010/1/29 Michał Sawicz <michal@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Dnia 2010-01-30, sob o godzinie 00:50 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow pisze: >> Does it matter? If one disk fails you know the next disk failure has a >> 33+% chance of data loss and knowing which disk will be critical >> doesn't >> change that. > > For me it was important when I needed to have the array running (root > fs) with only 2 disks out of 4 (not enough controllers). It would be > nice to be able to tell which are mirrors, which are striped. > > -- > Cheers > Michał (Saviq) Sawicz > As was noted in another reply recently; write down drive serial numbers. Drive serial numbers can be obtained online via tools like smartctl or hdparm (read their manuals, they're useful tools). In your case you have a 50% chance of finding a working combination the first time, and swapping only one cable from a disk that is connected to one that's not would resolve the issue. -- 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
