Suggestion: Disk Druid changes
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 5 07:46:57 UTC 2007
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
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