Raid rebuilding

[Joseph Fannin]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:00:07PM -0400, Steve Lefevre wrote:

> What is my best hope for recovery? My thought is that I can swap out the 
> motherboard, leave the drive ordering the same, and if Tux truly loves 
> me, I will get my raid back.

    Linux software raid is smart enough to handle the drives getting
rearranged,  if that's your concern.  If you set things up to use RAID
autostart (or whatever it's called, where the kernel starts the RAID
arrays before mounting the root filesystem, rather than using
raidstart or whatever from the initscripts) it will Just Work.

    I still use raidtools, rather than the newer mdadm stuff, but
without the kernel autostart you need to edit your /etc/raidtab (or
the mdadm equivalent) to kick off the raid array.  

    That said, I'm no genius when it comes to being super-careful with
data, so if the smarter and more experienced people on this list
contradict me, listen to them.

-- 
Joseph Fannin
jhf at rivenstone.net