On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:35:31 +0100 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Option 1 is by far the simplest, does anyone see any reason why I should try to be cleverer than this?
I don't. I think that you are right to apply the KISS principle. Why invite problems.
(Actually, option 1a comes to mind which is better still: buy the new disks and get them set up in another box, build the empty array, then copy the data across and transfer the disks; much reduced downtime. If the array is ready before the weekend, and I leave the data copying across over the weekend, I should be good to go on Monday..)
I think I've answered my own question but would still appreciate comments.
And that gives me the answer to what I need to do later when I eventually replace the disks in my RAID1 setup. I have a spare box I can use.
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