From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 00:54:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BE6F8A for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:54:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jusher71@yahoo.com) Received: from nm6-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm6-vm0.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B06B8FC12 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.54] by nm6.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 00:53:54 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.246] by tm7.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 00:53:53 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1060.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Nov 2012 00:53:53 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 979556.63041.bm@omp1060.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 56791 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Nov 2012 00:53:53 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1353545633; bh=VTSCwuONGgrudTv6Nbu5QaIJH9PdqgXFzC/K7sXbzZE=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Rocket-MIMEInfo:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=u73PpFTUzo+VBANGroRoMc5LNFAvnmnWSlHnZekd2++NOo66TDm9OPFNgDBTuTe/Ldz2ISJGX3apqT0x0PrDmVZNVX24T16n3RjrYDh28+C8Od0EMfqHVJN2w/Hji1CRrR2gZYQCiJRkI0Lqsz6KSq/0OML+1UV3rlFk2bbstVg= 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=Py3uQl1RHexXxEMai0H6n5HLDaSlf1NsDs/9UlNQfmniWaNEfY8NjkDPoWjyhmGVPlTmEXMW0OIMVkmpmMk+74clQpA1UvZr4LzCmyD4FDfyp1GpnPVwTI648WDQ/DnMy+s5rBFeOpjdYVi/WQIfSELjI8PQBYju7jTmYw134K0=; X-YMail-OSG: dN7R2h4VM1kW8KEdf7vOSRy1Tq15RpU65lZbZcOX6cLmAdL zILThMeD7OKEIGNHXPN_dEqH6jC7atzDnQYLBquE.wGQGypq9uTTaXAyVbmn 2V6tonkxlGh0xrKVOc1CdrYtguZSHTv7Yn.dGf9aSQif9.EB6GRNuauWvE8f 5IcjWJPLtSIV6.H0isCfDaaAttfujFSLKZe924qxJFlufVoQGWX.8MdK9z9F p_arZ9J2YF0rEYVzXsEQCln3Mmcapl3V9Zol3qf.j_.lj0Ui1vR706tnK2i. tPspHp9mEjKvgsNOcNSSyJWsmiSjAijjMbSEbzDZKyc8EGX1sazhiX8t3NXT czLbv481R7I5JhTH53VZgt9I8AG4A9.B0BtRxvSnvZ3BLhynjoKCTPmYU7Qv WFxoFSGu8.vXMXzNpY3TQV2EmDLjIoIaEGC3k3c6HVgyZ Received: from [173.164.238.34] by web120701.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:53:53 PST X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001, V2UgY3JlYXRlZCBhIGZldyA4LjMtUkVMRUFTRSBzeXN0ZW1zIHdpdGggYm9vdCBtaXJyb3JzIHVzaW5nIG9uYm9hcmQgSW50ZWwgSUNIMTBSLiAgVGhlIHN5c3RlbSBwaWNrcyB1cCB0aGUgbWlycm9yIHdpdGggImF0YXJhaWQiIGFuZCBJIHNlZSBpdCBpbiBkbWVzZyBsaWtlIHRoaXM6CgphcjA6IDExNDMxMk1CIDxEREYgUkFJRDE.IHN0YXR1czogUkVBRFkKCkJ1dCBpdCBzZWVtcyB0aGF0IGdyYWlkIGlzIGEgbXVjaCBiZXR0ZXIgb3B0aW9uLCBhbmQgYXRhcmFpZCBoYXMgcHJvYmxlbXMgKEkgYW0gc2VlaW4BMAEBAQE- X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/15.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.123.460 Message-ID: <1353545633.44812.YahooMailClassic@web120701.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:53:53 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Usher Subject: Can I migrate from ataraid to graid ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:54:02 -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.