> > I will do this conversion; but I will backup my data as best I can first, > > just in case. > > I still have the 5 1TB drives and my data should fit on there, just a PIA > > to do it. > > (Ahh, that's what weekends are for, right?) > > After the RAID6 is repaired and running OK, I believe I will rebuild the 2 > > RAID1 arrays > > as that will be an easy project (since I have 5 copies of everything) which > > will get rid of > > all vestiges of previous raid arrays. Do I need to anything special other > > than zeroing > > the superblocks (--zero-superblock)? Also, shouldn't I do that on the > > RAID6 array before > > doing the create or is that done automagically? > > It is done automatically. When you use "--create", mdadm will zero any > superblocks it finds of any format that it recognises, then write the new > metadata it wants. > I am still waiting for my replacement Hitachi drive. My RAID6 configuration is made up of a total of 5 drives and I am currently running degraded (missing one drive). Can I recreate this raid set, changing the metadata version missing one drive or should I just be patient and wait for the replacement to arrive? -- Ken Emerson -- 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
