Sunday, April 07, 2024

Re: Migrate to different FS layout of OpenBSD

On 2024-04-06, Kirill A Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Apr 2024 23:14:39 +0200,
> Peter Hessler wrote:
>>
>> RAID0 is called that because zero is what you'll recover if you lose a
>> disk. This is amazingly dangerous, and you're going to have a bad time.
>>
>> Do a backup, then restore from backup.
>>
>
> I was totally misslead. I mean that I have RAID1 which is know as mirror.
>
> To be clear: here a two identical servers where I'd like to change FS
> layout, and before I go to reinstall everything, I can try this approach.

softraid doesn't allow creating a 'degraded mirror' i.e. a single drive
that you can later add another drive to make a RAID1. You would need at
least one spare drive to do what you want.



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