At Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:24:45 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > What's the odds of retaining the data in a software raid-1 array when > falling back to CentOS 5.8 x86_64 from CentOS 6.3 x86_64? The array is > made up of 2 - 1.5 TB hard disks. The original array was defined under > CentOS 5.3 x86_64, then CentOS 6.1 x86_64 was installed and over time > upgraded to CentOS 6.3. I need to back-level to test some software not > certified for CentOS/RHEL 6. If you didn't do something like rebuild the raid array when you installed CentOS 6.3, the raid array will just plain work. I'm going to assume that the raid array is a separate data file system from the operating system, i.e. the root file system is on a different file system. This makes things very easy. > > Thanks, > Gene Poole > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments