Re: AARGH! Please help. IDE controller fsckup

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 10:42:07 EST


Jakob Oestergaard wrote:

>>>>But ... with persistent superblock - is it possible to fsckup the raid?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>You're root, it is indeed possible :)
>>>
>>>
>>er - yes. I more meant like 'automagically'
>>
>>
>
>It will only automagically screw up your arrays if you shuffle disks
>between machines (mix several RAID arrays from other systems in one
>system) (you can of course move all your disks to one new machine, if
>it has none of it's original RAIDed disks left).
>
>Just don't mix disks with persistent superblocks from multiple machines
>into one single machine. Unless you know exactly what you're doing.
>
>
Could it be some kind of idea to 'sign' the disks with some hash out of
hostname and IP or something?

roy

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