Suggestion: Disk Druid changes

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Jul 6 14:29:20 UTC 2007


Gerry Reno wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Rahul,
>  Will do.  Just wanted to see what kind of take up there was for the 
> idea.
>
> Gerry
>

Not sure if this is how you file RFE but here it is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247119


Gerry




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