From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 2: 4:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E7737B401; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.aldigital.co.uk [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1E243EAF; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (geology.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77379986B6; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3DE5EAA0.4030009@algroup.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:06:24 +0000 From: Adam Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Adam Laurie Subject: Re: vinum documentation References: <3DE244ED.8000903@algroup.co.uk> <20021125224557.GJ41068@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DE353C7.5080704@algroup.co.uk> <20021126232050.GB21404@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>yep. like all the others i've found, this deals with fixing problems >>within the raid itself, not moving a working raid onto a new system >>(which is effectively what i was doing). > > > No, it addresses exactly your problem, modulo the fact that your > plexes were RAID-5. I'd be interested in what makes you think it's > different. ok, i'm obviously not making myself clear... my problem wasn't replacing a drive in the RAID, it was replacing the root disk. the system booted off a seperate stand alone root disk. the RAID is entirely independant of the root/boot drive. cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (20) 8742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (20) 8742 5995 The Stores http://www.thebunker.net 2 Bath Road http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 1LT mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message