Re: Replacing software RAID drives

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-raid-approaches.html 

doesn't reveal too much but from what they say it would imply that they may be 
able to to what you say as hardware raid does.

I would think that newfs'ing the drive may work followed by stoping the raid and 
restarting it, I know that there are stop/start raid scripts with the OS, if the 
drive and fs type are similar then the raidD will start rebuilding, I guess that 
you can only figure it out by trying it out, not to say the least that I was 
going to get the same IBM 80GB disk and it seems that the Seagate choice was a 
better one.


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