VERY cool. I just migrated mine to use labels in the fstab for mounting. For anyone reading this see "man e2label" for detail.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Carl L. Gilbert <<a href="mailto:clg-social@rigidsoftware.com">clg-social@rigidsoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:00 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 05:41:03PM +0200, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:<br>
> > Matt Nelson wrote:<br>
> > > On one of my mythtv backend servers I host my fileserver that stores all<br>
> > > of my media on two raid5 sets totaling 12 drives that are all attached<br>
> > > via sata. These are all attached externally, and that is where my<br>
> > > question lies, if I connect these drives incorrectly will my raid sets<br>
> > > die, or does it not matter where they are connected since there is some<br>
> > > metadata that tells the linux software raid that it belongs to a certain<br>
> > > raid set?<br>
> ><br>
> > Yes, Linux software RAID will work regardless of the drive order. Your<br>
> > only order concern is the boot drive.<br>
><br>
> Well, that's mostly true.<br>
><br>
> The filesystems will be mounted according to the instructions in<br>
> /etc/fstab. If fstab specifies them by UUID or volume label,<br>
> then they will always be mounted in the same location.<br>
><br>
> If, however, you have chosen to mount them by their device<br>
> names, it is possible that reboots with changed hardware<br>
> configurations (even as little as booting with a USB stick or a<br>
> memory card in a slot) can change the order. udev rules can<br>
> mitigate that.<br>
><br>
> -dsr-<br>
><br>
</div>Yes, exactly. This is the problem I used to have. Then I started using<br>
labels. I just installed Mandriva 2008 and noticed that its using<br>
UUIDs.<br>
<br>
<br>
dnoyeb<br>
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