Softwareraid - New Installation

Hello World!

I'm using 2 USB HDD's in a software RAID 1 compound.
sdb1 and sdc1 are merged to md0.
It's not my primary volume, it's "just" my backupdevice. So all my important files are stored there.

My question:
I want to perform a new installation of my system when SuSE11.0 is released.
I'm going to install SuSE as usual.
After the installation - when everything works fine - I want to include my backupdevice.

I guess the system will respont in the following way:
sdb1 and sca1 will be detected correctly. (The volumenames may differ).
And the RAID informations are lost. Understandable.

So now I have 2 stand-alone devices, which contains both the same data.

If i run the Yast-Partitonierer to merge these volumes to my "old" compound, would everything works fine?
Will I get problems?
Do the system want to format the devices?

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards from Munich.

dirschL

Why would the RAID information be lost? In fact, optimistically the system will note that they are RAID components and allow you to reassemble them, if not from YaST, then certainly manually, with mdadm.

Hi all.

Actually I'm running the SuSE11.0 RC1 Live CD.
Everything works absolutely fine. Linux recognizes the raid compound while booting. No further configuration is needed. I suppose this is similar with the full installation. Why should they change something like that...
I am very happy... :-)

ken_yap - thanks for your answer.

dirschL