RAID 1 and recovery

[James Thorpe]

Thanks Brian - that makes sense - will try it on my test system now :o)

James.

Brian Tillman wrote:
> James,
>
> A single disk from a Linux Software RAID  1 Mirror (using MD)  should 
> readable in another system so long as you also running MD on that 
> system. You'll just need to import that disk as a new array on the 
> second system; there is a flag to indicate that the second drive in 
> the array is missing and can be added later.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 8:52 AM, James Thorpe wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Been searching for a while for an answer to this, and have started 
>> experimenting with a fresh install, but not found a way yet.  
>> Basically I'm building a small home server, primarily to act as a 
>> file store.  It's got a drive for the OS, and 2 further drives which 
>> I wish to set up in a RAID 1 array to use for the store.  All the 
>> info I've managed to find so far to do with recovery from this is 
>> when just a drive in the array fails, however I'm also concerned 
>> about the box as a whole, and I'd like to know if it's possible to 
>> take a single drive from the array, put it into another machine and 
>> be able to read from it?  Eg just as a normal ext3 partition etc?
>>
>> That's it... very simple - but I've not found the answer yet!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James.
>>
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