[CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

Tue Sep 10 18:01:22 UTC 2013
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote:
> | are both systems totally identical hardware? in that case, I'd simply
> | move ALL the disks, including the system volume.
>
> I agree here.  Looking at the future, consider e2label to assign or change a label on an ext2/3/4 file system or xfs_admin -L <label> /dev/sdc1 for XFS and then move to using file system labels instead.  It will avoid the device enumeration problems discussed earlier.

Or make it worse, depending on how well and how centrally you can
track things like that.

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   Les Mikesell
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