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deliberately degrading RAID1 to a single disk, then back again

DISCUSSION Maurice Hilarius 3 participants 3 messages Jun 26, 2007 – Jun 27, 2007 MD RAID

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Good day all.

Scenario:
Pair of identical disks.
partitions:
Disk 0:
/boot - NON-RAIDed
swap
/ - rest of disk

Disk 01
/boot1 - placeholder to take same space as /boot on disk0 - NON-RAIDed swap
/ - rest of disk

I created RAID1 over / on both disks, made /dev/md0

From time to time I want to "degrade" back to only single disk, and turn off RAID as the overhead has some cost
From time to time I want to restore to RAID1 function, and re-synch the pair to current.

Yes, this is a backup scenario..

Are there any Recommendations ( with mdadm syntax) please?

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mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1

Quoted 48 lines · Maurice Hilarius

Good day all.

Scenario:
Pair of identical disks.
partitions:
Disk 0:
/boot - NON-RAIDed
swap
/ - rest of disk

Disk 01
/boot1 - placeholder to take same space as /boot on disk0 - NON-RAIDed swap
/ - rest of disk

I created RAID1 over / on both disks, made /dev/md0

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From time to time I want to "degrade" back to only single disk, and turn

off RAID as the overhead has some cost

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From time to time I want to restore to RAID1 function, and re-synch the

pair to current.

Yes, this is a backup scenario..

Are there any Recommendations ( with mdadm syntax) please?

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Regards,
	Maurice
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1001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000

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Quoted 4 lines · Justin Piszcz

mdadm /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

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From time to time I want to "degrade" back to only single disk, and turn

off RAID as the overhead has some cost

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From time to time I want to restore to RAID1 function, and re-synch the

pair to current.

Yes, this is a backup scenario..

Are there any Recommendations ( with mdadm syntax) please?

Plus

  mdadm /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1

to take the drive out of the array and

  mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1

to put it back and start the re-sync.

When you mention "turn off RAID" do you mean to not even bring up the disk as a degraded array? If all you do is fail and remove the partition, RAID is actually still running to manage the single remaining partition, but I would expect that overhead to be minimal.

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