I moved my system from ext3 to XFS on RAID1 tonight, which was
relatively painless all things considered. There was one irritation with
the XFS tools, though.
Since I didn't want to toss 30GB of data over my network twice[1] I used
the second disk of the pair to create a degraded mode RAID1 device.
I think tried to create an XFS filesystem on it and, annoyingly, got
told that my MD array was not clean.
It would be *really* nice if there was some way to override this warning
when I do know that the array is in degraded mode, and I really do want
to do this anyway.
I hacked this by making removing the exit() call in md.c in libdisk,
which seemed the sensible path to me.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] ...not to mention the lack of anywhere else to store it...
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> What should I look for in a good bird bath?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} In a good bird bath? I'd expect to find birds.
} In a bad bird bath, tarantulas.
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