Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:29:31AM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> 
>>>>After setting up raid0 on wd1, i.e. before syncing with wd0, the system 
>>>>ran without a hitch for several days.
>>>>
>>>>As soon as I sync'd with wd0 
>>>
>>>
>>>How did you do the sync?
>>
>>pax -Xrwvpe ... ...
> 
> 
> What?  I don't understand quite what you did, but it doesn't sound
> right.
> 
> You have a RAID of wd0 and wd1?  And you "synced" the component you're
> adding by using pax onto a filesystem on it that already exists before
> you join them as a RAID set?
> 
> That's definitely not right.
> 
> Thor

Of course - that's not right! I synced with...

raidctl -a /dev/wd0a raid0
raidctl -F component0 raid0

... pax was used to copy the data onto the filesystem on the raid device.

Louis