From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 18:35:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA35D8D for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:35:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jusher71@yahoo.com) Received: from nm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.90.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8138FC0C for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.226.180] by nm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Nov 2012 18:32:10 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.249] by tm15.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Nov 2012 18:32:10 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1041.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27 Nov 2012 18:32:10 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 91992.53931.bm@omp1041.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 25298 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Nov 2012 18:32:10 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1354041130; bh=VTSCwuONGgrudTv6Nbu5QaIJH9PdqgXFzC/K7sXbzZE=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=JBYXk+yGrN5H8iFQMwccMJEoj5rgwTcXe9Yl+0L9qykuQpw9NYn4SCcVmQNV4SsXtfXeJ/tKmB5o0JA++T2B3omEw3kkL4vOL6GUmbjOBdMxx+nlg9EIZ07sihlzPNi2nX7+RIj4ZdohiJHSChRzTSAZcN/GodGmrq03UPoQ7no= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=rOy/xhGZFhwgMaW3t7QJyZUoIDdSl22g64C4Q/uNW/H+lM4Qd/TXV7mjdKcfFpBXQDmLrw39/4NBil6fYHcaehuUv9fOSInUzMvTIV695TfCuV40CqcNinTJaBo8pMrAUPKfZTCHvdBh7G1RmQBpj3BJU+tuhQVmCFp6H3AywLw=; X-YMail-OSG: 83LStd0VM1nHX3ui_I5HXHZnmPlfA5PIpUqpMbIcm3hpIJF 7EThmAb8MYlZP4XrQdD3Q2Uga23SOcK3w6GYoU5q8Ywd6z7.25qlWn7nSKn5 _COBkMYsDZDygdzWiNszyaKmqdZALsJ7kW6DNVlTdtARCXasrzQYc2jHe8eZ CBKanzYk38Ehpuk3NI8w31kqNrUyimvE3A5hCqTgxJaJDoHd8zdrywD7v5Vq y4L8AObJScpcyt.ma0CA5JAJMuNbVBsmB8hfeCPdRqFT66zforzB9rCzZwyG sKfmIAdbWKZ28qW5p1pVUYoJIcGw9hUGatX3R3PJ5LR05kpyw2b3UMoPfHOK 07I48SBzSvJt_94WpDCfqjcikM2eGjMDqdNbkU3XC90njk24sKRkv.CNqXnQ 8SrPPBS9suuq7Nmjcq3.Ofrhq56M5JqvJ.2J4IYDYWzIJHGIxxvnacvOU Received: from [173.164.238.34] by web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:32:09 PST X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001, V2UgY3JlYXRlZCBhIGZldyA4LjMtUkVMRUFTRSBzeXN0ZW1zIHdpdGggYm9vdCBtaXJyb3JzIHVzaW5nIG9uYm9hcmQgSW50ZWwgSUNIMTBSLiAgVGhlIHN5c3RlbSBwaWNrcyB1cCB0aGUgbWlycm9yIHdpdGggImF0YXJhaWQiIGFuZCBJIHNlZSBpdCBpbiBkbWVzZyBsaWtlIHRoaXM6CgphcjA6IDExNDMxMk1CIDxEREYgUkFJRDE.IHN0YXR1czogUkVBRFkKCkJ1dCBpdCBzZWVtcyB0aGF0IGdyYWlkIGlzIGEgbXVjaCBiZXR0ZXIgb3B0aW9uLCBhbmQgYXRhcmFpZCBoYXMgcHJvYmxlbXMgKEkgYW0gc2VlaW4BMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/15.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.127.475 Message-ID: <1354041129.24091.YahooMailClassic@web120705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:32:09 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Usher Subject: Can we migrate a live ataraid system to graid ? To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:35:32 -0000 We created a few 8.3-RELEASE systems with boot mirrors using onboard Intel ICH10R. The system picks up the mirror with "ataraid" and I see it in dmesg like this: ar0: 114312MB status: READY But it seems that graid is a much better option, and ataraid has problems (I am seeing chatter on freebsd-fs and other places about problems). Is it possible for us to migrate this boot mirror to graid ? Can we just leave the mirror as-is (since it was bios formatted) and just start using graid ? Has anyone done this switch on a live system, or is it impossible (and we need to reformat and start over) ? Thanks.