[CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5
Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
finnzi at finnzi.com
Sat Jan 5 00:20:45 UTC 2008
Dan Carl wrote:
> I forgot to add the file system is riserfs.
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> Subject: [CentOS] Migrating software raid from SUSE 9.0 to Centos 5
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> I have a SUSE 9.0 box with a software raid.
> It consists of 6 IDE drives and three different controllers
> The OS is on a separate drive.
> What I want to do is put a new boot drive in load Centos on it.
> Then I want to be able to mount the raid without loosing any of the data on
> it.
> What information do I need from the SUSE OS (raid info etc...) to tell
> Centos how to recognize it?
> The data is backup on DVD's but it would be a real pain to reload it.(its
> around a terabyte of data)
> So I'm writing here for some advice.
> I've setup many raids in the past but only fresh installs.
> Thanks
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Hi,
It should not be any problem but you will have to install the kernel
from the centosplus repository since the base kernel does not include
support for reiserfs.
Thanks,
Finnur
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