Suggestion: Disk Druid changes

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Hi all,
>  As I mentioned in another post, I have been using a technique that at 
> least for me greatly simplifies moving to and from RAID-1 on any 
> system.  I do this by installing the system on a degraded RAID-1 array 
> and then later it is very simple to make the system true RAID by just 
> adding the missing drive/partitions.
> 
>  From the other Fedora 8/9 wishlist post:
>  Another thing in Disk Druid that I would like to see is the ability to 
> install on a degraded RAID-1 array where I declare RAID-1 but then the 
> second mirror is missing.  I install this way all the time on systems 
> and then when I add the second hard drive later and place it into the 
> array, it just syncs.  Want to go back to just a single drive - no 
> problem.  Just fault the device and remove it.  No complicated 
> remounting filesystems or anything - very smooth.  This way you're 
> always on an md device.  I would like to see this actually become the 
> default.  It makes it very easy to convert a system to RAID-1 later on 
> if the user would like to do so without any complicated procedures 
> necessary.

You might want to file RFE's in http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

Rahul