Michael Evans <mjevans1983 <at> gmail.com> writes: > I'd use smartctl to get the drive serial numbers, then move what are > currently shown as sdb5 and sdd5 to your new controller during a > coldboot. Thanks. I did this and was able to boot and reassemble successfully with a live CD. However, the question in the back of my mind is "is there any way to tell whether this would have worked with one of the controllers down?" In other words, if I just pulled the plug on sdb and sdd instead of moving them to a new controller, would the array have been able to be reassembled in a degraded mode with only sda and sdc? Or would it actually need a different combination of drives (e.g., sda and sdb) to be able to reassemble? Obviously I could try this, but if I am able to reassemble an array with two drives missing, won't I have to resync the other drives when I return them to the array? I'd rather avoid experiments involving resyncs if possible. Mike -- 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
